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March 10, 2025 Illuminating The Running Flame: Fang Fang in Conversation with Michael Berry More than twenty years after its initial publication in Chinese, The Running Flame is finally available in English translation. As the novel reaches a new group of readers, translator Michael Berry revisits the origins of the story with author Fang Fang, who in this interview, reflects on her work and the place of women in contemporary China.
March 3, 2025 Seven Must-Read Books for Women’s History Month 2025 Each March, we come together to honor and recognize the legacy of women in history, society, and culture and to reflect on the ongoing fight for gender equality. This year’s theme for Women’s History Month, “Moving Forward Together! Women Educating...
February 8, 2025 10 Must-Read Books for Black History Month 2025 Understanding the impact of Black labor is key to understanding Black history and culture, as well as its influence on the United States. This year’s Black History Month theme—African Americans and Labor, free, unfree, vocational, and voluntary—explores how work has...
February 1, 2025 A Hypothetic Interview: When the Artist Considers HimselfJames B. Haile III The Dark Delight of Being Strange is an experimental work combining the elements of Black speculative fiction, Afro-surrealism, Black philosophy, and Black studies to think through the meaning and implications of Black freedom. Dark Delight invites us to imagine and...
October 1, 2024 Lucina Schell on “Sangre” by Mercedes Roffé The Argentine poet Mercedes Roffé is known for her ekphrastic poetry and her engagement with a wide range of different artistic traditions, from visual art to music and literature. Her 2016 book Diario ínfimo (Mere diary), excerpted in Constellation, is...
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 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 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 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,...
August 20, 2024 Ilze Duarte on Marília Arnaud and The Book of Affects Marilia Arnaud, author of O livro dos afetos (The Book of Affects), was born in Campina Grande, in the northeastern state of Paraíba, and lives in João Pessoa, the capital city. Arnaud first became known in Brazil as a short...
August 13, 2024 Language Haunted by Sex? Armine Kotin Mortimer Armine Kotin Mortimer, who translated Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death by Julia Kristeva, discussed what he considered when translating the book’s subtitle “Language Haunted by Sex.
August 9, 2024 Celebrate Book Lovers Day with Global Reads Raina Mansfield This Book Lovers Day, immerse yourself in the wonder of reading by exploring new titles. We’re excited to share some standout collections and collaborations that highlight literature’s diversity and richness. From powerful narratives by Roseway Publishing to the lyrical poetry...
March 10, 2025 Illuminating The Running Flame: Fang Fang in Conversation with Michael Berry More than twenty years after its initial publication in Chinese, The Running Flame is finally available in English translation. As the novel reaches a new group of readers, translator Michael Berry revisits the origins of the story with author Fang Fang, who in this interview, reflects on her work and the place of women in contemporary China. 
March 3, 2025 Seven Must-Read Books for Women’s History Month 2025 Each March, we come together to honor and recognize the legacy of women in history, society, and culture and to reflect on the ongoing fight for gender equality. This year’s theme for Women’s History Month, “Moving Forward Together! Women Educating... 
February 8, 2025 10 Must-Read Books for Black History Month 2025 Understanding the impact of Black labor is key to understanding Black history and culture, as well as its influence on the United States. This year’s Black History Month theme—African Americans and Labor, free, unfree, vocational, and voluntary—explores how work has... 
February 1, 2025 A Hypothetic Interview: When the Artist Considers HimselfJames B. Haile III The Dark Delight of Being Strange is an experimental work combining the elements of Black speculative fiction, Afro-surrealism, Black philosophy, and Black studies to think through the meaning and implications of Black freedom. Dark Delight invites us to imagine and... 
October 1, 2024 Lucina Schell on “Sangre” by Mercedes Roffé The Argentine poet Mercedes Roffé is known for her ekphrastic poetry and her engagement with a wide range of different artistic traditions, from visual art to music and literature. Her 2016 book Diario ínfimo (Mere diary), excerpted in Constellation, is... 
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 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 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 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,... 
August 20, 2024 Ilze Duarte on Marília Arnaud and The Book of Affects Marilia Arnaud, author of O livro dos afetos (The Book of Affects), was born in Campina Grande, in the northeastern state of Paraíba, and lives in João Pessoa, the capital city. Arnaud first became known in Brazil as a short... 
August 13, 2024 Language Haunted by Sex? Armine Kotin Mortimer Armine Kotin Mortimer, who translated Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death by Julia Kristeva, discussed what he considered when translating the book’s subtitle “Language Haunted by Sex. 
August 9, 2024 Celebrate Book Lovers Day with Global Reads Raina Mansfield This Book Lovers Day, immerse yourself in the wonder of reading by exploring new titles. We’re excited to share some standout collections and collaborations that highlight literature’s diversity and richness. From powerful narratives by Roseway Publishing to the lyrical poetry...