In the morning we share cigarettes, and coffee.
Review: Camellia Street by Mercè Rodoreda, Translated by David Rosenthal
David Rosenthal is clearly a masterful translator of the original Catalan — you can see Rodoreda’s pen at work behind his translation.
Four Poems from Ortsion Bartana Translated from Hebrew
Four poems from the Israeli poet Ortsion Bartana, translated from the original Hebrew by Hana Inbar and Robert Manaster.
Three Poems by Franco Buffoni Translated from Italian
I’d like to talk to this photo of me next to the piano,/ To the eleven year-old boy with flaming cheeks.
Three Poems by Sara Shagufta Translated from Urdu
Three poems from Sara Shagufta's book Aankhein which have been translated from the original Urdu by Arshi Yaseen.
Review: Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
Killing Commendatore is the most recent entry in Haruki Murakami’s canon of sensory and supernatural games of chance.
Hazeover by Mohammad Tolouei, Translated from Farsi
Addiction doesn’t disappear, it only changes forms. I was hooked on idleness, but now I'm hooked on work.
Daydream by Edogawa Ranpo, Translated from Japanese
I continued on my way down that boundless, endless white road that seemed to stretch on and on and on.
Review: Deviation by Luce D’Eramo, Translated by Anne Milano Appel
Luce D'Eramo's Deviation constitutes an invaluable insight on memory, trauma, and repression in the context of life-writing.
Two Poems by S. Vijayalakshmi Translated from Tamil
She tells them to believe/ that above all,/ life has been made possible/ only by love.
Two Poems by Isabel Zapata and Martha Mega, Translated from Spanish
In your nightmare, you walk slowly underneath an umbrella made out of human/ bones.
Poems from Yu Nu, Lee Chin-Wen, Xiao Shui, Translated from Chinese
Will some lightly clapping hands remain/ in places where death walked through?