- Exciting news on two award lists: our colleagues HIsham Matar and Claire Messud have been longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, and 2015 Fall Residency writer Samuel Kọ́láwọlé has been shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing.
- In an opinion piece for NYTimes, Veronica Raimo plumbs the (shallow) depths of Italian women’s media representation.
- The Spring 2024 issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review features an excerpt from Amira-Géhanne Khalfallah’s new novel Onboard the Amsterdam or, the Last Voyage of Ibn Battûta, surveying the burning topics of migrancy, radicalization, and exile.
- An excerpt from Lidija Dimkovska’s most recent novel [Personal Identity Number] appears in the July 2024 issue of World Literature Today.
- Among the upcoming titles at the lively regional CEEOL Press is 1945 and Other Stories., an English translation of Gábor Szántó’s Hungarian original.
- In a recent Haaretz piece, Odeh Bisharat describes the efforts of the Arab-Jewish solidarity movement Standing Together to collect food for needy Gazans as well as build a long-term political coalition.
- Among the 2024 recipients of the Premio Argentores, given for “the best of the previous year’s authorial production” is Cynthia Edul, for her documentary play “El punto de costura.”
- Najwan Darwish’s “A Violet Darkness” in Kareem James Abu-Zeid’s translation from the Arabic, is the Poem-a Day for 9/19/24.
- The poetry of Sharron Hass appears in the bilingual volume A Winding Line: Three Hebrew Poets (Zephyr Press, 2024).