Georgina Fooks reviews Ave Barrera’s novel «The Forgery», translated by Ellen Jones and Robin Myers, with particular attention to the book’s sensory (and sensational) aspects.
A Garden of Earthly Delights and Bodily Horrors
Clinical Poetics
Anushka Sen revels in the stark expression and philosophical daring of Chantal Maillard’s «Killing Plato», a two-part poetic volume translated from Spanish by Yvette Siegert.
The honor and burden of poetry
Khalid Lyamlahy delves into Annie Jamison’s translation of «The Uncertainty Principle», one of the latest poetry collections by the eminent Moroccan writer Abdellatif Laâbi.
Filling the Space and Hiding Within
Mirgul Kali attends closely to «Amanat», a new anthology of translated stories by Kazakh women, and elucidates the challenging conditions in which the texts came to be written.
Motherhood is an Earthquake
Helen Zuckerman welcomes us into the nonlinear temporality and the rich canon of artistic/maternal predecessors of Jazmina Barrera’s seismic book on pregnancy, «Linea Nigra».
A New Beat in Our Chests
Panagiota Stoltidou discusses the breathtaking vitality of «The Light that Burns Us», a selection of poems by Jazra Khaleed translated from Greek and edited by Karen Van Dyck.
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