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The Rumpus Review of Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra
But the problem of making fiction is just one of the many problems a reborn country must figure out.
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This Week in Short Fiction
The summer issue of Asymptote was published this week with a gorgeous spread of short fiction in translation from Spanish, Croatian, Persian, and more. If you’re not already familiar the journal, it publishes English translations of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and…
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Putting Home into Words
It would have been almost impossible for me to resist Brazil forever. Given my love for black people and fascination with our stories, Brazil’s paramount importance in the historical trans-Atlantic slave trade and its contemporary role as a cultural and…
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The Rumpus Interview with Raphael Cormack
Raphael Cormack discusses The Book of Khartoum: A City in Short Fiction, a collection of short stories he co-edited and translated, the editorial process, and the responsibilities that accompany translating writing.
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Borderland Books That Travel
Veliz Books, a new literary press based out of El Paso, has just begun work delivering contemporary literature to the borderlands. The press has already published three books by talented Latino authors, and each is translated into English, Spanish, and…
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UNION: 50 Years of Writing from Singapore and 15 Years of Drunken Boat Edited by Alvin Pang and Ravi Shankar
Linda Ashok reviews UNION: 50 Years of Writing from Singapore and 15 Years of Drunken Boat today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Beaking the Language Barrier
Twain endorsed the book, saying “Nobody can add to the absurdity of this book, nobody can imitate it successfully, nobody can hope to produce its fellow; it is perfect.” A 19th century Portuguese-to-English phrase book, English as She Is Spoke, broke…
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White Blight by Athena Farrokhzad translated by Jennifer Hayashida
Gina Myers reviews White Blight by Athena Farrokhzad translated by Jennifer Hayashida today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Censorship in Ukraine
During anti-government protests in the Ukraine in 2013 and 2014, Oleh Shynkarenko, a journalist and blogger, found himself turning to Facebook after some of his blog posts were deleted, presumably by security forces. What he shared was a novel about about a man…
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Voices Speaking Rather Than Words Written
Simply put, there is no theory without struggle. Struggle is the condition of possibility for theory. And struggle is produced by workers themselves. At The New Republic, Rachel Kushner introduces the newly translated 1971 Italian novel We Want Everything by Nanni…
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Spotlight: The Rumpus Review of Panthers in the Hole
Brandon Hicks reviews Panthers in the Hole, a new graphic novel from by Bruce and David Cénou.
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This Week in Short Fiction
This week at Recommended Reading, PEN America offers an excerpt from Brazilian author Noemi Jaffe’s novel Írisz: as orquídeas, which is remarkable for many reasons, one of them being that this is so far the only opportunity to read part of…