An intriguingly open-ended review of Wen Cheng [The Lost City] (Beijing, 2021), the most recent novel by YU HUA , can be found in the just-out issue of World Literature Today.
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Today’s “Poem-a-Day,” by TSE Hao Guang 谢皓光, is from his volume The International Left-Hand Calligraphy Association, forthcoming from Tinfish Press.
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We regret to note the passing, after a life of exile, of the distinguished Iraqi poet and translator Saadi YUSEF (Youssef). His translation of Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself into the Arabic became one of the cornerstones of WhitmanWeb.
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Do yourselves a favor and go watch The Middleman, a French-Belgian miniseries co-written and co-directed by Etgar KERET and Shira Geffen, on The Criterion Channel as of June 2021.
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On June 14th, Asia Society will host an evening of readings in support of the Burmese writers killed or arrested following the military coup earlier this year. Among the presenters will be US Poet Laureates Joy Harjo and Robert Hass, Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek (Austria), poets Brenda Hillman, David St. John, and Christopher MERRILL (USA), Esther DISCHEREIT (Germany), Kinga TÓTH (Hungary), and many more. Register here.
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New books by alumnae Enza Garcia ARREAZA (Cosmonauta) and Pilar QUINTANA (Los Abismos) are reviewed in the May 2021 (18) issue of Latin American Literature Today.
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الأول , the tenth novel by Sahar KHALIFEH (IWP’78), published in Beirut in 2010, has just appeared in English translation from Hoopoe Press in Cairo as My First And Only Love. Read a review at WLT.
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We mark the passing of one of IWP’s early participants, the Yugoslav/Macedonian poet, translator, editor, and co-organizer of the Struga Poetry Evenings, Bogomil GJUZEL.
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The Octopus Has Three Hearts is the fiction debut of the imaginative poet and teacher, Vancouver-based Rachel ROSE.
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Among the 2021-2 Cullman Fellows at the New York Public Library are Josephine ROWE, Madeleine THIEN and Lewis HYDE.
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