Posted on May 09, 2021
Ever wonder what life in Iran is really like? There are still a few spaces left for a livestream with Iranian writers and translators (of each other's work!) Habibe Jafarian and Salar Abdoh: this Wednesday, May 12th, at 1 pm.
Posted on April 28, 2021
There is one thing almost all the literature on this site has in common: it has been translated into English from another language.
Posted on April 23, 2021
Family Stories: From China to the U.S.
Posted on April 14, 2021
"I was extremely devoted to studying Master Song’s craft, surrounded by swaths of cloth and bits of thread, whiling away a boyhood like a plant dyed an unnatural hue, brightly colored, but sick inside, silently suffering."
Aided by the advantages of hindsight, Xiaotong’s narrative voice preserves and embellishes the past to tell a painful story about adolescence, desire, abuse, and the quiet desperation of not fitting in. Lu Min’s “Scissors, Shining,” featured in Words Without Borders and translated by Michael Day, is a thematically challenging and formally interesting story that would be suitable for an explication or close reading assignment in the advanced high school or college literature classroom.
Posted on April 07, 2021
Wednesday, April 21st, 11am–12pm, Virtual