Sampsonia Way celebrates National Poetry Month by highlighting a collection of works (published, unpublished, and performed), which were created by poets who greatly contributed to the development of the magazine.
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Tienchi Martin-Liao writes about how the concept of “servitude,” or nuxing, has impacted Chinese and Indian literature and culture throughout history. She then discusses China’s current servitude to wealth and its recent offer to modernize India.
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Last October, Hamdy El-Gazzar wrote about Karam Saber, an Egyptian writer who was sentenced to five years in prison for “contempt- and defamation of religion” in his short story collection, Where is God. On March 11, the Beba Misdemeanour Court in Beni Sueif upheld this sentence.
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What kind of literature might emerge in Burma, post-censorship? James Byrne, co-editor of the Burmese poetry anthology Bones Will Crow, reports on how government reforms are changing the literary landscape for writers and publishers, and how the rosy future of Burmese literature is really just a “surface reality.”
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In February Manuel Gonzales came to City of Asylum Pittsburgh to read from his collection of short stories, The Miniature Wife and Other Tales. In this exclusive video he reads the grisly and hilarious “Cash to a Killing.”
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French author Laurent Binet visited City of Asylum in November 2013 to read from his novel HHhH. Binet also sat down with Sampsonia Way to discuss his historical novel, objectivity, and his distaste for current French literature.
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In contrast to journalists, Russian writers are today freer to write about what they want. Natasha Perova, editor of the literary magazine Glas, explains what is currently happening in Russian literature.
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