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‘Mine,’ she says, and ‘I.’ She repeats me, mine, I until, finally, she catches a glimpse of her body that seems unfiltered.” In her experiences with men, she recognizes how the male gaze can be predatory and possessive, and she resists this objectification and appropriation. After 10 years of estrangement, Anabel meets the 28-year-old Owusu
Continue reading Family Fault Lines: On Nadia Owusu’s “Aftershocks”
Tugrul Mende: What was the spark that led you to start writing The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice? Huda Fakhreddine: I am interested in Arabic poetry, and I try to follow new publications and new trends and movements. I don’t see my work on the prose poem as a leap. TM: Can you give us
Continue reading ‘All Our Translations Are Prose Poems’: A Talk with Huda Fakhreddine
The perfect example is the beginning about the rain. The other four shortlistees for the 2020 Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation: Trees for the Absentees by Ahlam Bsharat (Palestine)Translated by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp & Sue CopelandPublisher: Neem Tree Press A Shimmering Red Fish Swims with Me by Youssef Fadel (Morocco)Translated by Alexander
Continue reading Kay Heikkinen Wins 2020 Banipal Prize for Translation of Huzama Habayeb’s ‘Velvet’
The impulse is understandable, but there’s a fine line between consolation and denial, between healthy grieving and a kind of digital necrophilia, and Sisto is surely right to wonder if the proliferation of such technologies will alter our relationship with death for the worse, vitiating the sense of closure that the funeral ritual is meant
Upon being fired, the old man fell at the mother’s feet, weeping and begging “for mercy, yes, actually for mercy,” and the woman relented. Captain Tom’s walk was funny because it was patently absurd, suggesting a Britain so militantly opposed to state support that it prefers to bankroll its health service through a centenarian performing
Thus in the poem, salt is bound up with washing. — Inferno, Canto XIII Blood-the-builder gushes From the throat of earthly things — Osip Mandelstam, “My Age” ¤ I. The reader of a poem encounters them mid-dialogue, speaking not only with one another but also with their own histories. Thus, “wheel” in the third line
Continue reading Unfit for Prison: On Ilya Bernstein’s Edition of Osip Mandelstam’s “Poems”
The people, sullen and forlorn, Trailed along Like a jilted lover Or an oppressed soul Longing for the dawn. My eclipsed moon was bleak. … Back in the day, the moon was as a child of mine, Covered in down feather like a bird. And so was I, Aimlessly wandering the streets As the night
Until then, I hadn’t written that kind of plot. I don’t usually reread my work, but if I do, I’m content. And I can say that’s not been true for me about anything I’ve written. But I don’t think they were up against the same obstacles as these women, who were really meant only to
Continue reading The Day Begins with “Evening”: A Conversation with Nessa Rapoport
¤ Ian Ross Singleton is a writer, translator, and professor of Writing at Baruch College. Like Lembersky himself, almost all of the characters in Samusis are Soviet immigrants, many of whom pepper their English with Russian words or their Russian with English. The story could be a creepy thriller, but, as the narrator says, “Nowadays
You’re in it, and you have all this meaning that is circulating within you as you’re composing, and then you let it go. But of course, “cosmopolite” is ancient Greek for the citizen of the cosmos. JAKE MARMER: What I consider to be the sacred moment in poetry, and mostly as a reader, not even
Continue reading Tzimtzum as (Space)craft: Jake Marmer’s Mystical Sci-Fi Poetics
Sunday Submissions: Hazine Seeking ‘Art in the Digital Sphere’ Hazine is looking for pitches by January 22 — although deadlines for finished pieces are flexible — for a series on “the digital world and art from the Mashriq, the Maghreb, Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Turkey, or Iran“: They write: Why have many artists chosen
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Shortly after, to the consternation and horror of most in attendance, Seale was brought back bound and gagged. One of the themes that Wiener illuminates, and Sorkin ignores, is the fear that Nazi-style jackbooted thuggery could become the norm in the United States. “You represent all that is old, ugly, bigoted and repressive in this
As it so happened, Anaïs was a graduate student of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the time, and I began teaching there the following year. ¤ TRACIE MORRIS: I want to start with a quote that you have in the book at the very beginning: “I have discovered that when I experience what is universal
Continue reading Change of Perspective: A Conversation with Anaïs Duplan
It’s what Tocqueville was so concerned with in Democracy in America. On the other hand, when your campaign is fighting back against exploitative property developers in Los Angeles, that’s never going to be accomplished in a two-year fight with City Council. What we tend to do is divide these groups up and just say: These
Continue reading The Styles and Dilemmas of Advocacy: A Conversation with Paul Lichterman
Read all twelve poems at rustedradishes.com. Barjeel Prize-winning Poems Now on ‘Rusted Radishes’ The winners and runners-up of the inaugural Barjeel Poetry Prize — twelve in all — appeared this week on the Beirut-based magazine Rusted Radishes: The poems — written in English and Arabic, by teens and adults from around the world — each
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Her 1987 book Lives of the Twins was scheduled to be released as by “Rosamond Smith,” but shortly before publication, Oates’s cover was blown, causing some consternation among her agent and editors. In a career that has spanned six decades and has seen the publication of almost 80 novels and probably close to 500 short
Continue reading The Ineluctable Agon of Desire: Joyce Carol Oates’s Suspense Fiction
She also conceded that Black nationalist organizations and other protest groups were right to push conspiracy theories about the targeting of Black youth by the police, given the district attorney’s use of coerced statements extracted from minors with no legal representation to frame five Black teenagers. The memoir’s tone of centrist idealism reinforces Thompson’s commitment
Continue reading “When They Go Low, We Go High”: Keeping Calm in the Critical Race Memoir
Read the story here: Saghira’s Laws It opens: Shortly after the conclusion of the Yemeni National Dialogue Conference at the beginning of 2014, there appeared in the media an announcement for an open position: “Man or woman wanted for the position of President of the Republic. Applicant must hold Yemeni citizenship, possess excellent reading and
Continue reading Friday Finds: Wajdi al-Ahdal’s ‘Saghira’s Laws’
The extensive portrayals of the poor in Hurricane Season hearken back to the way the working classes were depicted in the novels of such classic naturalist authors as Émile Zola. Her style, too, is reminiscent of the naturalists’ scientific approach, capturing the distinctive local dialect, with its unflinching barrage of obscenities and slang (wonderfully evoked
Confederate soldiers, determined to die for their cause, refused to believe written and verbal reports of defeat. “Every New Yorker was sure to tremble at a renewal of the draft,” Elizabeth Mitchell writes, “given that Lincoln’s first draft, less than a year before, had turned New York’s streets into blood-soaked, charred avenues of terror when
Continue reading A Fabricating Tyrant?: On Elizabeth Mitchell’s “Lincoln’s Lie”