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Literary MagNet: Dong Li

October 19, 2025

In translating Ye Hui’s poems from the Chinese in the collection The Ruins (Phoneme Media, November 2025), Dong Li wanted to foreground a writer he says is an “underdog” in…

Podcasts

History Extra podcast: Breaking news! How stories spread in early modern Europe

October 15, 2025

If you lived in 16th-century London, would you have any idea what was happening in Paris, Venice or Frankfurt? Well, yes, according to Joad Raymond Wren – and that news…

comics

The Enigma of Amigara Fault

October 12, 2025

The Enigma of Amigara Fault This short story by Junji Ito is about a fault that appears in Amigara mountain after an earthquake. The earthquake exposes countless human-shaped holes in…

Articles

My Brilliant Fiend

October 5, 2025

Elfriede Jelinek’s screwball zombie epic

Articles

Texas Excess

October 4, 2025

Carmen Boullosa upends the Lone Star State’s mythology

Articles

Nowhere Fast

September 28, 2025

Antonio di Benedetto’s “Trilogy of Expectation”

Articles

Analyzing the French in Mad Men’s ‘New Business’

September 3, 2025

French is used heavily throughout the episode, as Megan’s mother and sister help her move on from her life in New York. One conversation in particular stuck out to me.…

Articles

You Can’t Go Home Again

August 23, 2025

Ágota Kristóf’s confounding fictions of exile

Fiction

Arsène Lupin

August 22, 2025

By Sonallah Ibrahim Translated by Emily Drumsta

Poetry

A DEFENSE OF JOY

July 5, 2025

by Mario Benedetti translated by Maria Popova

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