Asterisms

“The Birth of a Translator” excerpt from Self-Portrait in Bloom

And so began a new life, illuminated already in the choosing of what to translate,…

Review: Niloufar Talebi’s Self-Portrait in Bloom: Translation and Power

My country Iran has been in the U.S. news for decades. The American news whipsaws…

Lissette Escariz Ferrá
Origine

–Why are you translating me? –-I want to understand every word in your body. –You…

“how to run / out of our own flesh—”: A Review of Grace Shuyi Liew’s Careen

Writing about the musician Mitski, Jia Tolentino argues that, “there is a notion, informed by…

Expanding the Waters of Love: A Review of Shayla Lawson’s I Think I’m Ready To See Frank Ocean

“Of course, when I say, ‘Ocean’ I am thinking of myself —how every time I…

Wanting Rooms: Carley Moore and Nicole Calihan in Conversation

Across time and space, Carley Moore and Nicole Calihan meet to have a conversation to…

Ayşe Papatya Bucak: On Optimism in the Face of War, the History of Sponge-Diving, and Having an Open Borders Imagination

Bucak’s wry humor and easy storyteller’s voice persists throughout her collection, The Trojan War Museum…

Beyond Borders: Immigrant Women Writers In Conversation

Angie Cruz: In response to Trump’s election and the rise of the #metoo movement, Irina…

Sean Gandert: What does it mean to be a person while the world is burning?

Set in Albuquerque and steeped in magic and Catholicism, Sean Gandert’s novel American Saint uses…

Francesca Marzia Esposito: Writing Diagonally

Translated from the Italian by Jeanne Bonner and Joshua Graber Aster(ix): In the story, Autumn…