Fadwa Touqan Will Do the Tango No More
"If your love has died / Do not grieve / Laugh at love / And deceive with laughter / An unyielding sorrow." To be honest, we had to control… More
Snail’s House
The formative experience of reading cannot be ignored. We are not just the product of a family or of a society, of a religion or of an ethnicity, of… More
An Evening with McSweeney’s
McSweeney’s contributors read excerpts from their translations in McSweeney’s Issue 42—an ambitious experiment that took twelve stories through six phases of translation in a variety of languages, granting each… More
Burma: Bones Will Crow
Two of the Burma’s most esteemed poets, Zeyar Lynn and Khin Aung Aye, read from their work and discuss the country’s budding literary scene with the editor of Bones… More
Workshop—Jacobin: What the Wu-Tang Clan Tells Us About Political Publishing
In a digital, post-political age, Jacobin, a young political print journal, has managed to thrive. Its founder covers the utility of intellectual journals in the 21st century, the future… More
Obsession: Lewis Lapham on Smoking
Longtime editor Lewis Lapham—who helmed Harper’s for three decades—is also a longtime smoker. He discusses the virtues of smoking and his love of the act, despite its faults and… More
Overcoming Fear to Build a Courageous Society in China
When I visited Wenchuan soon after the quake, hundreds of children’s backpacks were strewn across the ground. More
An Excerpt from Cervantes Street
When one man died, he was replaced by another one; when that other man fell wounded, a healthy one emerged from behind him, creating an endless reserve of soldiers… More
Jamaica Kincaid Reads from Paradise Lost
Jamaica Kincaid reads an excerpt from John Milton Paradise Lost at the 2013 PEN World Voices Opening Night Reading at Cooper Union. More
Goings On About Town: Above and Beyond
This annual gathering, which was founded in 2005, brings together writers and artists from around the globe. More
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