Expensive editors of World Literature In the present day, In her March 2025 column “Language as Refuge,” Veronica Esposito explores questions of language growth and loss, responding to the query: “What occurs when a language dies?” Sadly, the essay overlooks key components of that subject: linguicide, linguistic rights, and language preservation. Esposito implicitly acknowledges that […]

Reflections on Presence and Absence (Visible Depiction, Perfume, and Sound) Background Notes: Exploring the disciplines, as a nonfiction author and avid reader, leads one to find helpful strategies of study. With this in thoughts, I start a brand new subseries, a group of philosophical musings expressed randomly, typically with poetry in thoughts. The theoretical foundation […]

Picture by JACQUELINE BRANDWAYN on Unsplash Right now’s submit is by author, editor, and e book coach Karmen H. Špiljak. Writing fiction in one other language may sound easy. Technically, you’re utilizing the identical instruments as in your mom tongue, so altering the language ought to really feel no completely different from, say, switching from […]

Saul Steinberg, the Romanian American artist and longtime New Yorker contributor, is as celebrated for his elegant line as he’s for his razor-sharp wit. His 1945 début American assortment, “All in Line,” not too long ago reissued by New York Assessment of Books, places each traits on putting show. “I’m unfit to do something not […]