Death Is Hard Work
Khaled Khalifa, translated by Leri Price
"Two hours before he died, Abdel Latif al-Salim looked his son Bolbol straight in the eye with as much of his remaining strength as he could muster and repeated his request to be buried in the cemetery of Anabiya. After all this time, he said, his bones would rest in his hometown beside his sister Layla; he almost added, Beside her scent, but he wasn't sure that the dead would smell the same after four decades. He considered these few words his last wish and added nothing that might render them the least bit ambiguous."
One Another
Monique Schwitter, Translated by Tess Lewis
"When you suddenly google your first love, it’s in response to the sound of knocking you hear just before you fall asleep and hear even louder the moment you look in the mirror in the morning and catch sight of the deep vertical crease between your eyebrows. You’ve tried, in vain, to locate the source of the knocking; it seemed to come now from inside, now from outside—up in the attic / inside your skull—but you could never pin it down."
Yiyun Li, Trying to Find the Words to Grieve
The Author of Where Reasons End in Conversation with Michele Filgate
Sideshows and Circuses: 6 Novels That Define the Carnival Genre
Steph Post on an Unheralded American Literary Tradition
Brad Phillips on Trauma, Memory, and the Myth of the Self
In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl
High Lonesome: A Dispatch from the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering
Does the History of Western Poetry Begin with Sheep?
Kristen Arnett: We Need to Talk About Library Junk
Thousands of Librarians, Millions of Useless Old Objects
On Kate Bush’s Radical Interpretation of Wuthering Heights
Or, How to Teach English with a Music Video
What Will Social Networks Look Like After the Internet?
An Afrofuturistic Vision of Offline Communities
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