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The founder of the Endangered Alphabets Project, Tim Brookes is the author of more than a dozen books, including Writing Beyond Writing: Lessons from...

Our newest podcast episode features creepy stories by Bruno Schulz, Ambrose Bierce, John Herdman and Felisberto Hernandez.

I'm not worried about losing eyelashes.The radio reading of Kafka's letters to Felice by Valère Novarina was more than a good reading, because it was...

"I think of the book as an archive of human knowledge filtered through branches of thought."

I. Killing the KingAfterwards I remembered I had seen him before, from the air as I flew from one trapeze to another. I had spotted his eyes absorbed in my...

I hold my hands aloft.How many hours do people waste in a lifetime over this sort of action?Do I mean people, or do I mean normal people, people who...

During a surrealist voyage of introspection beginning at the Caffè Florian, in Venice, the protagonist suspends time, obeying orders from her own...

I am fifteen, sitting beside the lavoir on a low wall sheltered by an arbour of wisteria. I come here to immerse myself in the buzz and whine of insects that...

Athens doesn’t exist. They placed the Acropolis on a hill and called it a day. Using typical city sounds (car horns, church bells, the cries of...

On the Way to TuranIn Baku in September 2024, the Council of Elders of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) adopted a unified alphabet...

“An act of pure attention, if you are capable of it, will bring its own answer.” —D. H. Lawrence Lagaan, a 2001 Bollywood film,...

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Q&A with K. E. Semmel, translator from the Danish and 2016 NEA Literary Translation Fellow.

I met with Jen Calleja—author, musician and translator from German extraordinaire—at the Edinburgh International Book Festival where she...

MIMIAMB 1METRIKHE:Threissa, there’s a knock at the door, go look andsee if it’s one of our own, come in from the field.THREISSA:Who knocks?...

There he is, in the Penitentiary, sticking his big, oscillating head out from between the bars, the cannibal. Everyone knows him. People pack in like...

from Secret Death (1976)And I abandon death. Plaything of God.The muses hurry along only if what’s gone returns, separated into...

I first encountered the work of the artists Koi and Hyungmee Shin in a show called 19+16ing 展 There and Here, which opened in September of 2025 at...

Danielle Pieratti (DP): Naoko, we met back in 2023 at the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference, and I can still remember first coming across your...

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” —Attributed to Nikola Tesla...

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The Gaps   “We lived in the gaps between the stories.”—Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale So flummoxed were...

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Part One: The JourneyKing’s SquareKönigsplatz was deserted and ghostly on the freezing morning at the end of March when I crossed it for the...

ChildThere has never been, nor will there ever be, human life without apparitions.Behold the child.Behold the apparition.BreathOn the night of June 30, 2017,...