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October 17, 2014
Editor's Introduction The 17th Century Kabbalist, Nathan of Gaza, speculated that before the world came into being, there were, in the...
September 4, 2014
Editor's Preface The texts which follow are excerpted from Frank Smith’s Guantanamo. The book is comprised of his French translations and...
August 20, 2014
Foreword by Editor “We understand we can’t repeat what God tells us.” These six “flash reportages” by Nathalie Handal offer us new ways to...
August 11, 2014
You know as well as I do that a people under occupation will be unhappy, that parents will fear for the lives of their precious children,...
June 23, 2014
Editor's Introduction “The doctor says the problems are the chemicals in my brain,” begins Josh Hutson’s poem “Red Spices.” Indeed, the...
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May 4, 2014
Editor's Introduction Marcel Proust writes of being in his bedroom and hearing what seems to be a riot in the street outside. Then, his...
March 26, 2014
Tarnac, a preparatory act is the most recent volume in my cycle of works published in France by Editions du Seuil’s series Fiction et Cie...
February 23, 2014
July 5th 2012 marked the 50th anniversary of Algeria’s independence. Albert Camus’s 100th birthday was celebrated a year later, on November...
December 3, 2013
Editor's Preface Cruel firmament, With thy diurnal sweigh that crowdest ay And hurlest al from est til occident That Naturelly wolde holde...
November 30, 2013
In “To a Snail,” Marianne Moore imagines a snail as a poem, valuing its “absence of feet” and the “curious phenomenon of its occipital horn...
October 29, 2013
Translator's Preface Euphrase Kezilahabi (b. 1944) is a major Swahili author, a pioneer both in fiction – where his works move from social...

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