Human Sacrifices – María Fernanda Ampuero
The characters of these stories live in fear of the moment that a villain will grab hold of them. But there is another side to this fear: desire. The terrible thing, in Ampuero’s stories, also holds a certain allure.
Stories and Poems of a Class Struggle – Roque Dalton
[Roque Dalton] knew it would not be simple, winning a revolution in El Salvador. Still he went.
Hoffer’s work . . . has [a] kaleidoscopic quality, zooming in and out from description of a landscape to a consideration of the molecules from which the landscape is built—from describing the way someone’s insides might look outside their body to simple statements that reveal the weight of a love.
The Blue Light – Hussein Barghouthi
In this autobiographical novel, translated from the Arabic by Palestinian poet Fady Joudah, Hussein Barghouthi searches for a solution to his spiritual desolation.
What if I wrote a novel about this situation of being a nameless voice and published it under my own name?
Giving Language to the Language of That Which Cannot Be Constructed
By imagining new worlds and countering Zionist mythologies that deny them their history, Palestinian poets challenge the colonial history into which they have been brutally implicated by the Israeli apartheid regime.
The Complete Works of Álvaro de Campos – Fernando Pessoa
Simply being is rarely enough for Campos; he needs to think intensely about being, and feeling, and everything else.
The Book of Desire – Tiruvalluvar
Meena Kandasamy’s The Book of Desire reframes translation both as intimate practice and as a necessary political project.
MySpace was a great website because it was fueled by music fandom. . . . We need to find a way to get back to communities, to organic, real-world friendships.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings – John Lorinc
Compiling an anthology about possibly the most common food in the world practically guarantees an interesting mix of histories and perspectives . . .