Magdalena Zurawski’s intrepid use of caesura — a pause in a line of poetry — reinforces the theme of disciplined…
Language
One morning last November, I woke up to a stirring sight: video clips of young protesters in several Chinese cities…
Are you in an intercultural/multilingual relationship? We’d like to know which language you use to express affection toward your partner,…
Kashmir’s unofficial poet laureate, he gave voice to the rich culture of a bitterly divided territory and helped give his…
Some time ago, I fell into conversation with a colleague about what we had been reading lately, and the person…
All too often clunky dialogue breaks the spell of CGI-heavy TV epics. To be reminded what language can do by…
Noah Baumbach’s funny and very stylish film adaptation of “White Noise” is a great invitation to return to the source…
In “Motherfield,” her first collection to appear in English, Julia Cimafiejeva grapples with questions of language, nationalism and oppression.
The victory of Kim de l’Horizon, a nonbinary writer, in a top literary prize stirred a debate about how the…