Guka Han (Tr. Katie Assef) 11/12/24 Guka Han (Tr. Katie Assef) 11/12/24

Earshot

“Day after day, I kept turning up the volume of the music, but it only seemed further and further away. After a few months, it had disappeared completely.”

Carey Baraka 10/10/24 Carey Baraka 10/10/24

The Sound of the Waves

“It felt as if, the university having collected us, we were now on display, exotic specimen there to perform. And so we performed.”

Edwidge Danticat 10/8/24 Edwidge Danticat 10/8/24

This Is My Body

A reflection on violence and nourishment in America after experiencing a mass shooting hoax at a Florida mall.

Bruna Dantas Lobato 10/3/24 Bruna Dantas Lobato 10/3/24

Blue Light Hours

“In the movie of my life in America, the one my mother liked to watch, a young woman sits alone in her bedroom and calls her mother each night on a computer.”

Adela Greceanu (Tr. Monica Cure) 9/24/24 Adela Greceanu (Tr. Monica Cure) 9/24/24

Gabÿ, Tree, Goose

Three poems.

Maylis de Kerangal (Tr. Jessica Moore) 9/19/24 Maylis de Kerangal (Tr. Jessica Moore) 9/19/24

After

“I ran through the school gates and jumped on my bike without looking back, five kilometers down this road more familiar than even my mother’s voice, and which was suddenly evasive, distant, like a laminated picture under a transparent film.”

K. N. Prasanth (Tr. Dr. Jayasree Kalathil) 8/22/24 K. N. Prasanth (Tr. Dr. Jayasree Kalathil) 8/22/24

Hornets

“Hornets are trying to live too, making their nests. Humans have inside them envy and cruelty and pride and so on and hornets, well, they have a bit of poison.”

Lucrecia Zappi 8/22/24 Lucrecia Zappi 8/22/24

Eleonor/Eleonora

“Was she out there somewhere, and what was she doing? And how had she survived the same ordeal as me?”

Mercè Rodoreda (Tr. Gala Sicart Olavide & Nick Caistor) 8/22/24 Mercè Rodoreda (Tr. Gala Sicart Olavide & Nick Caistor) 8/22/24

Flowers

“Neither the strange currents of love nor water on the verge of thirst — nothing in this world can compare to the pleasure offered by observing this flower.”

Ingvild H. Rishøi (Tr. Caroline Waight) 8/22/24 Ingvild H. Rishøi (Tr. Caroline Waight) 8/22/24

Words of Wisdom

A poem.

Xi Xi (Tr. Jennifer Feeley) 8/22/24 Xi Xi (Tr. Jennifer Feeley) 8/22/24

Butcher Ding

“I never expected that tai chi sword would become a special type of physical therapy for me.”

Oğuz Atay (Tr. Ralph Hubbell) 8/22/24 Oğuz Atay (Tr. Ralph Hubbell) 8/22/24

Man in a White Overcoat

“The coat fit him like a glove. The vendor spun him around, and the flared skirt fluttered outward.”

Salomat Vafo (Tr. Sabrina Jaszi) 8/8/24 Salomat Vafo (Tr. Sabrina Jaszi) 8/8/24

Telefon

“Whenever he sees the phone, he thinks about calling his mother.”

Eva Baltasar (Tr. Julia Sanches) 8/8/24 Eva Baltasar (Tr. Julia Sanches) 8/8/24

Mammoth

“It was time. I spotted him on the terrace, made my approach, took away his glass, and stubbed out his cigarette.”

Noémi Kiss-Deáki 8/8/24 Noémi Kiss-Deáki 8/8/24

The Rabbit Dream

“Men are stupid. They are so stupid, they will believe this. Everyone will hear about us. And, if you play your part well, Mary, you might even become rich.”

Claudia Piñeiro (Tr. Frances Riddle) 8/8/24 Claudia Piñeiro (Tr. Frances Riddle) 8/8/24

Time of the Flies

“So that’s what I call myself when I’m alone, the name Charo wrote in lip liner at the end of the letters she sent to Ernesto, my husband. Excuse me, my ex-husband.”