Working Day Statement: Education, Knowledge, and Learning
We believe that all young people and adults deserve the right to find and excavate our humanity, to make ourselves understood, and to tell our stories. We believe in… More
Working Day Statement: New Orleans
A few things we don’t want to do: we don’t want to be redundant, meaning we don’t want to start a service or project that already exists locally. Even… More
Rob Spillman: Eye of the Outsider
James M. Cain’s Mildred Pierce, set in Southern California at the time when the roaring ’20s was turning into the low, depressed growl of the ’30s, captures an era… More
Suheir Hammad: also libya
also libyano one tells youif anyone does you do not listen anywayif you do still you do not understandno one tells you how to be freethere is fire in… More
Before the Next World Cup
It was Amichai’s idea, those wishes.After Emanuel Petit scored the third goal and it was already clear that France would take the Cup, and there was a faint sense… More
Words a Cell Can’t Hold
I had imagined being there beneath sunlight / with the procession of martyrs / using just the one thin bone / to uphold a true conviction More
Susana Amaral’s The Hour of the Star
Great novels are seldom, if ever, successfully translated to the screen (Luchino Visconti’s film adaptation of Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s The Leopard is the one exception that immediately comes to… More
I Am All of Yourselves
Was it because nobody expects the greatest Jewish writer since Kafka to be a part-time beauty columnist whose Chanel suits and wraparound sunglasses made her look more like a… More
Clarice Lispector: The Hour of the Star
The Hour of the Starby Clarice LispectorTranslated by Giovanni PontieroThe Author's Dedication(alias Clarice Lispector)I dedicate this narrative to dear old Schumann and his beloved Clara who are now, alas,… More
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