Ben Fergusson’s debut novel, The Spring of Kasper Meier (Little, Brown, 2014), won the Betty Trask Prize and the HWA Debut Crown. It was followed by The Other Hoffmann Sister (Little, Brown, 2017) and An Honest Man (Little, Brown, 2019). In 2020, he won the Seán O’Faoláin International Short Story Competition and a Stephen Spender…
At times of injustice and tragedy caused by senseless human actions, it is helpful to recall the revolutionary power of writing from the broad perspective of the history of human existence.
Maria Dahvana Headley’s 2020 Beowulf translation works to center the lives and voices of women—a move that dramatically changes its handling of violence and trauma.
Jacqueline Harpman’s 1995 novel presents a debate about what is best for a post-apocalyptic world, exploring generational conflict regarding the relevancy of norms from the old world in the new.
Julie Otsuka’s new novel is divided into five chapters, three written in the first-person plural perspective and two in the second-person; the novel examines dementia, familial relationships, and the friction between the collective and the individual, using the shifts in point-of-view to marry form to content.
A forgotten classic in the realm of climate fiction, Kōbō Abe’s 1958 sci-fi thriller represents a telling effort in assessing why so many of us feel resigned to our climate fate—and why it is fundamentally difficult to understand the magnitude of the problem that lies before us.
In Westwood, California, our professor, whose name was, he told us proudly, Yiddish for fucker, careened through Merrill. Goethehaus I pronounced ‘goathouse’ and the professor’s modus operandi was startled. Farnoosh scrawled it wasn’t me on our copies of ‘Lost in Translation.’ Who is Gunmoll Jean? We were too shy to ask. But she did. Lee…
Andrej Pleterski is a literary translator from English, French, and Slovak into Slovenian, and of Slovenian poetry into English and Slovak. He has published more than twenty book-format translations (British, Australian, French, Slovak, Maltese, and Slovenian authors) and compiled five anthologies (poetry and prose). He is a two-time winner of the “Lirikonov zlat” International Award…
Ming Di is a Chinese poet and translator living in the US. She has co-translated Empty Chairs (Graywolf Press, 2015), New Cathay: Contemporary Chinese Poetry (Tupelo Press, 2013) and New Poetry from China 1917-2017 (Black Square Editions, 2019). She has published six books of poetry and four books of translations in China.
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