Happy birthday, William Faulkner! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good…
Two Poems from Erroneous Song, by Antonio Gamoneda
Translated by Katherine M. Hedeen and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez I have seen hearts settled by ants, and carnal masks,…
Hungarian Poetry Folio
Translations by George Szirtes A Dream of Colored Inks By Dezső Kosztolányi Yellow is my favorite. How many letters…
Young Tide, by Can Xue
Translated by Karen Gernant Not until dawn did the noise subside and all turned quiet. Tide fell asleep. He…
Ceaseless Imaginative Striving: A Review of Gabriel Josipovici’s Partita / A Winter in Zürau
By Jeff Bursey “In those months Kafka came to understand that you cannot articulate or grasp final truths, only…
From the Archives: The Alluring Obscurity of Noir: A Lesson Before Writing, by Ted Morrissey
Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Ted Morrissey! Celebrate by reading this Morrissey essay on Robert Coover’s Noir we published in…
