Dance on the Volcano
The people of this novel behave like knives thrust into [...]
Return All You Took In: Poems by Arseny Tarkovsky
Arseny Tarkovsky (1907–1989), the filmmaker's father, was perhaps the most [...]
Through the Ivory Gate
Seamus Heaney introduced his translation of Beowulf with these words: [...]
A psalm rises: Poems after Antonio Machado
Translator's Note On January 27, 1939, in torrential rain, the [...]
Absolute Solitude
Born to a wealthy family in 1902, Dulce María Loynaz [...]
Until My Resurrection
If César Vallejo had been born in the South Bronx [...]
Bubbly in the Vulva
"Bubbly in the Vulva" is the opening poem in Stormwarning, [...]
Sudden Death
It’s a little disheartening to think I may have already [...]
In Other Words
In Other Words, Jhumpa Lahiri’s new memoir, is first and [...]
Aftenmalkning: Evening Milking
"Evening Milking" takes place on a razor’s edge, on the [...]