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Allegiances
By Noah Warren
Between Two Languages: An Interview with Yoko Tawada
By Alexandra PereiraThis week, Tawada's latest novel, 'The Emissary,' translated by Margaret Mitsutani, won the inaugural National Book Award for translated literature.
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By Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire SchwartzIn our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, Kaveh Akbar is on the line.
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Cooking with Bohumil Hrabal
By Valerie StiversTo toast Bohumil Hrabal’s absurdist masterpiece, Valerie Stivers cooks Czech goulash, veal medallions, and potato croquettes.
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Feminize Your Canon
By Emma GarmanOur monthly column Feminize Your Canon explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors.
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An Interview with Natasha Trethewey
By Lauren LeBlancIn her new collection, 'Monument,' Trethewey interrogates the black experience of America, the trauma of domestic violence and murder, and the destruction of the Gulf Coast.
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Eat Your Words
By Valerie StiversCooking up recipes drawn from the works of various writers.
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A Natalie Barney Garland
By George WickesNatalie Clifford Barney, who was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1876 and who died in Paris in 1972 at the age of 95, was a legendary figure in France but almost unknown in her native land. She is the Amazone to whom Remy de Gourmont addressed his Lettres à l’Amazone, she appears as a character in half a dozen works of fiction, and her name turns up in scores of memoirs.
From the Archive, Issue 61
Letters & Essays
Another Sad, Bizarre Chapter in Human History
By Benjamin MarkovitsI used to be friendly with a kid called Sam Bamburger, whose mother was the first woman I ever heard of to get divorced. Sam was about nine at the time and up to that point something of an all-American kid, except maybe shorter and paler.
