Sarah Irving The Electronic Intifada 27 May 2014
With this collection of Najwan Darwish’s poetry — beautifully translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid — The New York Review of Books has made available to English-language readers the work of one of Arabic literature’s Continue reading
The edgily modern poetry of Najwan Darwish已关闭评论
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November 12, 2013Lisa Rose Bradford
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Juan Gelman’s prose poems remind his translator of “eating juicy kumquats, tart little explosions of flavor.” Continue reading
MAY 22, 2014
POSTED BY JOHN WRAY
Not long after my novel “Lowboy” was published, in March of 2009, I discovered in my Continue reading
WHAT’S IN A PEN NAME?For John Wray, it’s an escape and a way to be courageous in writing.已关闭评论
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26 May 2014 — “Shanghai. A heaven built upon a hell!” These simple and striking words from Continue reading
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With the 25th anniversary of the violent suppression of student protests on June 4, 1989 coming upon us next week, we spoke to Louisa Lim, a journalist for NPR who has written a book about the events of Continue reading
“If I don’t write this book, who will?”: Interview with Louisa Lim, author of The People’s Republic of Amnesia已关闭评论
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By DAVID STREITFELD and MELISSA EDDY MAY 23, 2014 7:24 AM 593
As of Friday morning, the paperback edition of Brad Stone’s Continue reading
Damian Barr
Posted: 04/30/2014 12:02 pm EDT Updated: 04/30/2014 12:59 pm EDT
Fiction is the willing suspension of disbelief–the reader knows they’re being kidded. The novelist’s job is to make them forget this. With memoir, the reader needs to believe you’re telling the truth. As a child I was told nobody would believe me so I pretended to be Continue reading
Posted on May 23, 2014 by necksbetrim
Seeing that Eric Abrahamsen’s translation of Xu Zechen’s Running Through Beijing was released by Two Lines Press earlier this month, it seems appropriate to sketch out a tradition of Continue reading
CHINESE LIANHUANHUA: A CENTURY OF PIRATED MOVIES已关闭评论
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