Shalvi J Shah, an MFA candidate in Fiction and Literary Translation and Teaching Fellow at Columbia University, talks to author Jenny Bhatt about craft, cultural...
Finding Rhythm: An Interview with Avni Doshi
Abhigna Mooraka, Columns Editor for Columbia Journal Issue 59, spoke to author Avni Doshi about her Booker-shortlisted Burnt Sugar, her writing process, and her art...
A Conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen
So for better or for worse, COVID has turned out to be an opportune moment. It’s terrible for the entire country, but for a writer,...
Translating the Transnational: An Interview with Mike Fu
A discussion with the translator of Stories of the Sahara (Bloomsbury, 2020) on navigating between languages.
You Should Be Paying Attention: An Interview with Lynn Steger Strong
Lynn Steger Strong discusses her second novel Want, a book that explores the complexities of motherhood, lost friendship, and the ways in which we live...
The Strange World of Work: An Interview with Hilary Leichter
...I was thinking about dating in the city and how it can be just like applying to jobs. There are some interesting parallels...
Translation as Activism: An Interview with Rachel Galvin
An interview with Rachel Galvin about wallops, activism, and the future of self-translation.
Art and Seoul: An Interview with Frances Cha
Frances Cha speaks about If I Had Your Face, her debut novel set in South Korea, and about writing, art, pop culture, and women.
Writing Iranian America: An Interview with Porochista Khakpour
In this interview, Jasmine Vojdani speaks with writer Porochista Khakpour about fragmented identity, being Iranian in America, regret, and her new book, The Brown Album:...
On Being A Good Indian: An Interview With Stephen Graham Jones
Max Asher Miller spoke with Stephen Graham Jones about The Only Good Indians, a bloody book with eyes on what it means to navigate Native...
Music, emotion and group translation: an interview with Terry Ehret, John Johnson and Nancy J. Morales
It is necessary and vital that we experience poetry from other countries if not simply for the reason that it allows us to sensitize and...
They Said This Would Be Fun: An Interview with Eternity Martis
Martis writes about the body in stressful and harmful times, boyfriends gone so wrong they dip into Greek tragedy, and separates the chapters with pithy...