Check in every Monday for our weekly list—ten handpicked articles from newspapers and literary magazines across the world.
The Thrill and Grief of Being a Singlehanded Sailor
The experience of sailing constantly takes the protagonist back to her inverted relationship with her now-deceased mother in this short piece of fiction.
Music, Midribs, and Mexicanisms: Christina MacSweeney on Translating Daniel Saldaña París’s Ramifications
MacSweeney, who first introduced París to the English-speaking world through Among Strange Victims, talks about naming translated titles anew, preserving dialects from source texts, and the notion of geographic translation.
THREE POEMS FROM THE RAKE
Entitled "The Rake packs up his troubles in an old kit-bag and smiles, smiles, smiles", "The Rake invites you to the Weepies", and "The Rake's Apology".
When Adrienne Rich Refused The National Book Award
Rich's pact with fellow-nominees Audre Lord and Alice Walker proposed accepting the award as a collective, but how did it all work out?
5 NEW BOOKS TO READ IF YOU LOVE TONI MORRISON
Includes Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson and The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Dare.
Death of a Poet
Maja-Pearce, one of the two biographers chosen by Clark-Bekederemo, introduces his work as well his life, especially his spat with Wole Soyinka, whom he comprised the “pioneer quartet” of Nigerian writers with, besides Chinua Achebe and Christopher Okigbo.
“Kusama: The Graphic Novel” by Elisa Macellari
Melanie Ho reviews Macellari's illustrated biography that relates various aspects of the artist's early life, from her conservative family to her battle with mental health.
The Libraries of My Life
An excerpt from Against Amazon and Other Essays, written by Jorge Carrión and translated from the Spanish by Peter Bush, that sheds light on the endangerment of smaller bookshops at the hands of capitalistic giants.
You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat review – self-destructive search for love
Holly Williams is all praise for a debut that represents the quest for love as an allegory for one's homeland.
American Utopia: Maira Kalman’s Spare Visual Poems Drawn from David Byrne’s Masterpiece of Anticynical Humanism
Recognizing the regressive nature of the past in comparison to the present is not cause for dismissal but determination.
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