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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.
Cuban-born Pablo Medina is the author of several poetry collections, novels, and works in translation. His most recent book is The Foreigner’s Song: New and Selected Poems (Tiger Bark Press, 2021). Currently, he is on the faculty at Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers.
Grace Mahoney is a translator of Russian and Ukrainian literature and the editor of the Lost Horse Press Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Series. She is the translator of A Field of Foundlings by Iryna Starovoyt (Lost Horse Press, 2017). Her translations of Lyudmyla Khersonsky’s poems will be featured in the forthcoming volume The Country Where Everyone’s…
Olga Livshin is the author of A Life Replaced: Poems with Translations from Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Gandelsman (Poets and Traitors Inc., 2019). Her poems, essays, and translations appear in the Kenyon Review Online, Poetry International, Gyroscope, Mad Hatters’ Review, and other journals. She lives outside Philadelphia, PA, and teaches children creative writing.
Boris Khersonsky is widely regarded as one of Ukraine’s most prominent Russian-language poets. Khersonsky was born in 1950 in Chernivtsi and spent most of his life in Odessa, Ukraine, where he practiced medicine at a psychiatric hospital and taught psychology at Odessa National University. In Soviet times, Khersonsky was a part of the samizdat movement,…
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