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We vividly recall moments that we experience from the edges, while those we experience from the center seem to fade. “Stories fail if you only read them once. His father calls Orner a bedwetter and President Obama a pansy-ass. They left early that night — on account of Herb’s indigestion — but their claim on
Continue reading For When Nothing Happens: Peter Orner on Stories
The Czech writer Karel Čapek had been one of those voices crying out in protest. Because the newts have all the knowledge and all the tools they need, there is no reason to doubt their success. We are right in it, my friends.” It is not enough to promise the world — the whole attic
Continue reading Before the Flood: Karel Čapek and the Destructive Drift of History
And I’m trying to start this conversation, exactly this. The most fascinating thing for me was this “level 24, box 15, folder six.” I just tried to visualize how they store it. Zweig’s perspective is diametrically opposed to Ludwig’s. How should we understand Zweig’s suicide? It’s a very complex question and there are probably a
#fakenews #NewYorkTimes #China #PresidentXi * ALTERNATIVE FACT: “Sen. Xi. It’s very serious. Previously, President Trump, Vice President Pence and Spicer have denied the existence of any such contacts during a campaign in which the Russian government interfered in order to help elect Trump.FACT: In an interview with the Washington Post published on
Then Martabel Wasserman drops by to recommend Sarah Schulman’s classic novel of New York City at the height of the AIDS crisis, People in Trouble, which features a Donald Trump-inspired antagonist. Davis discusses the evolution of a new literary art form, along with the establishment of women in the comics world. LARB Radio Hour:
Continue reading LARB Radio Hour: Vanessa Davis’s “Spaniel Rage”
The world doesn’t love you. But she defiantly remained a resident in the area. No matter how dire things got, they never went without food or books. “I don’t see the difference.” “Look at the logo. My mom did the same for me as a kid growing up in Oakland, taking me to the library
Continue reading Born a Crime: A Memoir of Love, Hope, and Resistance
And if those characters are true, if they have enough of the qualities of the people you met in real life, I think those insights can be true. And Rena is a quiet watchful character, so it was interesting to see how other people saw him. The hearings we have are the most theatrical and
Like many of Jones’s characters, the boy is driven by the desperate wish to belong. As harmless as those letters might seem, as smoothed over and polished as every chapter in Mongrels might appear in comparison to the wild, chaotic scenes in some of Jones’s earlier works, they’re still sharp around the edges, and they
Continue reading One of Them Now, Finally: Stephen Graham Jones’s “Mongrels”
The most gifted person I will ever know. Forster was alienated during the recording of 1988’s 16 Lovers Lane, which he regarded as being overproduced and overly pop-oriented without the commensurate units shifted. He’d always been reserved, opaque, the sort who needs warming up for 20 minutes before they acknowledge you — he had the
Continue reading Part Company: The Ballad of The Go-Betweens
Some of the families brought baklava and falafel and on the Saturday one mum brought cat-shaped biscuits and a local cafe supplied a tray of rose and pistachio donuts – amazing! Kaadan read and workshopped both from her English-language book, The Jasmine Sneeze, as well as from one of her Arabic books,
Continue reading A Successful First ‘Stories and Songs for Syrians,’ and a Book to Translate
However, this is not only for the independently wealthy translator, as financial aid is available, and organizers report there are at least two fully paid slots. It includes translation workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as lectures, craft classes, meetings with editors and agents, and readings by faculty and
Continue reading Sunday Submissions: Apply for 3rd Annual Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference
While visiting Al Mutannabbi Street, looking for books to buy, he meets Wadoud, who owns a bookshop on Baghdad’s famous bookselling street. When a student asks him to abandon his lesson and teach him how to say “on your knees, put up your hands, go back” in Arabic, so he can use it when he
Continue reading Sinan Antoon’s IPAF-longlisted ‘Index’ and the Emotional Lives of Objects
Ahmed Taha is an Egyptian poet who has published four collections of poetry. Despite this, he remains little known outside the Arab world. This year, from Ahmad Taha’s Empire of Walls: The wall of lost chances By Ahmed Taha, translated from the Arabic by Thoraya El-Rayyes Without a care you push your black
Continue reading The Annual Anti-Valentine’s Day Poem: ‘The Wall of Lost Chances’
I imagine that’s a struggle that would be much different if you were gazing down on the forest from atop a mountain rather than wandering within it. The Poleax also recently published a discussion between Iraq + 100 contributor Diyaa al-Jubeili and translator Andrew Leber, who brought al-Jubeili’s “The Worker” into English.
Paulo has strong links to the vibrant and pro-revolutionary cultural scene in Cairo as well as to the Egyptian security apparatus before and during the time of the revolution. Asmaa Abdallah reviews another of the titles on the 2017 International Prize for Arabic Fiction longlist: Youssef Rakha’s Paulo: By Asmaa Abdallah Youssef Rakha’s novel
Continue reading IPAF-longlisted ‘Paulo’: Exhausting and Unsettling, Like the Egyptian Revolution
They range from the historical to the very contemporary: A Small Death harks back the farthest, following 12th-century Sufi thinker Ibn Arabi; In The Spider’s Chamber is focused on the Queen Boat arrests of gay men in Egypt in 2001; Al-Sabiliat takes place during the Iran-Iraq war of
Salil Tripathi, Chair of PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee, said in a prepared statement: It is appalling that Abbad Yahya cannot return home because he fears he may be arrested over a novel he has written. The latter, Fuad al-Akleek, was detained and released. Advertisements Share this:TwitterFacebookEmailPrintLinkedInRedditGoogleTumblrPinterestPocketLike this:Like Loading…‹ Prominent Authors, Including Elias
You can also read an interview with IPAF organizers and an excerpt of his IPAF-shortlisted The Beaver, translated by attendees of the 2011 BCLT summer school along with the author (and, according to attendee Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp, occasionally the author’s wife). My aunt had gone for an appointment she had made with another
The subtlety of the portrayal caught me off guard and threatened to shake my long-standing lack of affection for poets, many of whom happen to be obsessed with embellishments and would go about verses with such condescending authority fit only for Greek gods. “In my music, I speak Latvian,” Vasks said in one of the
Continue reading Sudden Mesopotamian Downpours: Translating the Poetry of Maitham Radhi