To mark the one-year anniversary of the start of the Egyptian revolution we publish a story from Egyptian writer Hamdy El-Gazzar’s book Our Revolution: Stories to Fit in the Palm of Your Hand.
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Photo: © Nancy Crampton Yusef Komunyakaa captivates his audience with his distinct reading style. It’s not showy; he reads quietly, yet his sonorous voice fills the room with a distinct cadence. He may read some lines […]
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Translation: Román Antopolsky Photo: © Than Htay Román Antopolsky nació en Buenos Aires. Ha publicado tres libros de poesía: Ádelon (Tsé-Tsé, Argentina), Cythna en Red (Intemperie, Chile), y Amor Islam (Lumme, Brasil). Reconocido por sus traducciones […]
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A memoir translated by Robert Dorsett and David Pollard Synopsis In Search of My Homeland: A Memoir of a Chinese Labor Camp chronicles Er Tai Gao’s life under the political persecution of China’s Communist government. In […]
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On January 2, 2006, an explosion at the mine in Sago, West Virginia trapped 13 miners underground for nearly two days. Randal McCloy was the only miner to emerge alive. Pittsburgh writer Jonathan Barnes covered the […]
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Originally published in the North American Review, this essay is now part of Masters’ collection “In Rooms of Memory,” (University of Nebraska Press, 2009) My orchard here in Pittsburgh consists of two apple trees, a pear […]
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I began translating literature when I was in my early twenties. After publishing several volumes, I stopped for a number of reasons, mostly related to the material conditions of needing to earn a living and raise […]
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