Literary MagNet: Dong Li
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…
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…
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…
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…
Elfriede Jelinek’s screwball zombie epic
Carmen Boullosa upends the Lone Star State’s mythology
Antonio di Benedetto’s “Trilogy of Expectation”
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.…
Ágota Kristóf’s confounding fictions of exile
By Sonallah Ibrahim Translated by Emily Drumsta
by Mario Benedetti translated by Maria Popova