The Scent of Buenos Aires
Hebe Uhart’s stories sneak up on you. Refreshingly approachable, they are punctuated by street talk and saturated with a cryptic wit that recalls Lydia Davis. In The Scent of Buenos…
January
January is the story of a 16-year-old farmworker named Nefer. In the Argentine pampas, all things bow to Nefer. Reeds nod when she digs her heels into her horse, unripe…
Interview with Mircea Cărtărescu, Romanian author of the forthcoming Blinding
Mircea Cărtărescu, author of the forthcoming Blinding. (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
The Living and the Rest
One writer looks out the window at a sea that seems to hang like a crooked picture on the horizon. Another wakes from sleep with lines running through her head,…
Canoes
From the author of Eastbound, a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2023
Sister Deborah
When time-worn ancestral remedies fail to heal young Ikirezi’s maladies, she is rushed to the Rwandan hillsides. From her termite perch under the coral tree, health blooms under Sister Deborah’s…
Children of the Ghetto: Star of the Sea
Adam Dannoun’s story is one of beginnings. Born in a war-torn Israel, within the confines of the Lydda ghetto, Adam dreams of becoming a writer. He is just an infant…
People from Oetimu
July 1998. Men living on the border between West and East Timor are gathering at the police station to watch the World Cup. No one feels quite noble enough to…
Fog at Noon
What happens when a person goes missing? Told from alternating perspectives, Fog at Noon offers readers the chance to methodically decipher the story of Julia. A conceited “ninny,” somewhat-gifted poet,…