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September 30, 2024

Santiago Zabala on The Greatest Emergency

An Exhibition Based on Why Only Art Can Save Us

Seven years after the publication of Santiago Zabala’s Why Only Art Can Save Us: Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency, the prestigious cultural institution Círculo de Bellas Artes of Madrid will host an exhibition based on Zabala’s aesthetic theory. The...

September 25, 2024

Was January 6, 2021, a Rehearsal for a Greater Threat to American Democracy?

Brigitte L. Nacos, Yaeli Bloch-Elkon, and Robert Y. Shapiro

As a presidential candidate and the president of the United States, Donald Trump played a starring role in bringing hate speech, violent threats, and actual violence into the political mainstream. As a former president and once again a presidential candidate,...

September 24, 2024

Lawrence Schimel on Translating Music for Bamboo Strings by Carlos Pintado

In “The Challenge,” Cuban-American poet Carlos Pintado writes, in English translation by Lawrence Schimel: The distance between the rat and myself is minimal. She looks at the house from her smallness; I look at the house from my majesty. …...

September 23, 2024

Election Talking Points vs. Immigration Realities

Ernesto Castañeda and Carina Cione

In Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions, Ernesto Castañeda and Carina Cione present evidence about the causes and effects of international migration. Each chapter debunks a frequently encountered claim and answers common questions from fresh perspectives with data and analyses from...

September 19, 2024

Jenny Burton on Translating an Excerpt from Ansilta Grizas’s Un temporal

An excerpt of the Ansilta Grizas’s 103-page memoir Un temporal, originally published in Spanish by Ed. Entropía, was included in the anthology titled Constellation: Latin American Voices in Translation, recently published by Sundial House, a distribution partner of Columbia University...

September 18, 2024

Will Race and Gender Influence Opposition to Kamala Harris?

Matthew Tokeshi

Kamala Harris is the first Black woman to be a major party’s nominee for president. Her candidacy raises the question of whether race and/or gender will be grounds for opposition. In my book, Campaigning While Black, I answer this question...

September 17, 2024

Janet Poole on Translating Ch’oe Myŏngik

When Ch’oe Myŏngik was writing short fiction in the mid-twentieth century, he was known as a master of the detail. While other Korean writers of the time were cranking out dozens of pages of writing per week, often for serialised...

September 11, 2024

David T. Buckley on Blessing America First

In the lead-up to the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Donald Trump’s presidential legacy continues to shape U.S. foreign policy. David T. Buckley argues that the Trump administration’s populist approach transformed religion from a tool of statecraft into a strategy of...

September 10, 2024

Sheela Mahadevan on Translating Ari Gautier’s Lakshmi’s Secret Diary

L akshmi’s Secret Diary is a translation of contemporary Indian Francophone novel Carnet secret de Lakshmi by writer and poet Ari Gautier, who is from Pondicherry, a city in South India that was once the capital of French India. The...

September 6, 2024

Tiffany Troy on Translating Santiago Acosta

As a literary critic, I often begin my interviews with: “What is the act of literary translation to you?” Translators often respond with some version of the sentiment that translation is an act of radical activism. That is all well...

September 5, 2024

Sonia Sulaiman on Thyme Travellers

Sonia Sulaiman is the editor of Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction. She primarily writes short stories and fantasy inspired by Palestinian folklore and history. Her work has appeared in several genre magazines such as Fantasy Magazine, FIYAH,...

September 2, 2024

12 Must-Read Books About U.S. Voters, Presidential Campaigns, and Partisan Politics

Raina Mansfield

This November, millions of Americans will vote in what is sure to be a historic election. To help you be more informed about the current U.S. voting base and campaign politics, we curated this book list that offers a fresh...

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