How We Can Achieve a Good Life Through the Help of Others

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Working Writers: Nalini Jones on How Having a Day Job in Music Helped Her Write a Novel

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Where Words Dissolve: Yoko Tawada on Language as a Destabilizing Force

Where Words Dissolve: Yoko Tawada on Language as a Destabilizing Force

“I am searching for that state just before individual languages are dismantled—freed from their meanings and finally annihilated.”

By Yoko Tawada | August 18, 2025

Journeying in the Other Direction: On Bringing a Great Tamil Writer to English Readers

Journeying in the Other Direction: On Bringing a Great Tamil Writer to English Readers

On Translating Jeyamohan’s “Stories of the True”

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Joy Harjo on Transformational Time

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Amanda Knox and Lidia Yuknavitch on Reclaiming

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Orlando Whitfield on Friendship, Deceit, and an Art Deal Gone Wrong

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Carole Hinojosa on Motherhood in the Face of Addiction

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“Everybody says they care and want to help. Does anybody really care?”

By Carole Hinojosa | August 15, 2025

Nancy Reddy on Finding the Plot in Your Own Life

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“The most moving memoirs are the ones in which you see someone transformed.”

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“Old Song,” a Poem by Nima Hasan

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Huda Fakhreddine: “A real poem is never only of the moment. A real poem defeats time, every time.”

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How Do We Tell the Story of Gaza's Murdered Journalists?

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Steven W. Thrasher on Trying to Make Sense of a Slaughter

By Steven W. Thrasher | August 14, 2025

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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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