Julie Masis is the editor and writer of the Russian Boston Gazette, a newspaper for Russian-speaking immigrants in Boston. She can also be a contract journalist who has written extensively about Jewish historical past. Her tales have been printed within the Occasions of Israel, Jerusalem Submit, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Montreal Gazette, Globe and Mail, […]

On June 30, Ananke and World Literature Right this moment will co-host a particular Zoom dialog occasion to showcase WLT’s newest metropolis difficulty, “Delhi within the Anthropocene,” guest-edited by Amit R. Baishya. The problem gathers a wealthy combination of fiction, poetry, graphic narrative, images, and movie with a deal with multispecies cohabitation within the megacity. […]

Karen Fang is professor of English on the College of Houston and writer of the brand new e-book Background Artist: The Life and World of Tyrus Wong (Rutgers College Press, 2025), which is a biography of the Chinese language immigrant artist, centenarian, and Disney legend who helped make Bambi. Background Artist lately acquired an honorable point […]

Picture of Kristen Arnett by Maria Rada I encountered Kristen Arnett’s work quickly after the publication of her debut novel, Largely Useless Issues, once I picked it up in a bookstore. I used to be instantly arrested by its premise: a girl choosing up the mantle of the household taxidermy enterprise after her father’s loss of […]

Picture by Demianastur / Adobe Inventory The surplus of capitalism is the backdrop in Rosalie Moffett’s Making a Residing (Milkweed, 2025), and on the foreground: motherhood, debt, forest fires, and a speaker who’s deep down like everybody “obsessive about dreaming / up the long run, with hell, with all / that spares us.” All through Moffett’s third […]

All stills from The Hedgehog (2024). Images courtesy of Zheng Zhi. The author Zheng Zhi’s first novel, Floating, was printed in China in 2007, when he was nineteen years outdated. Since then, he has printed three extra—a fifth will come out this yr—in addition to quite a few volumes of quick fiction, all whereas writing […]

Illustrations by Cuauhtémoc Wetzka / Courtesy of Stressed Books Lamentations of Nezahualcóyotl: Nahuatl Poems (Stressed Books, 2025), by Ilan Stavans, is a set of poems that seize, from authentic Nahuatl songs, the voice of Aztec warrior, king, poet, and thinker Nezahualcóyotl, who lived half a century earlier than the arrival of the Spanish. The next is a […]