These days I’m not ashamed of lying at all, you see; lying and exaggeration are just the fashion lately. If it weren’t the Age of Lies, after all, then the Coin of Truth would be worthless!
Winter came. It came down upon me. And the winds blew over the world announcing like a herald: It follows him. So the first joy was blown away by an agile storm cloud.
In this issue of the Samovar Poetry Podcast, Kristine Ong Muslim reads Ilahás by Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles—which she translated into English from Filipino—in both languages.
I knew that the way in which the language itself evoked a particular time and place was what made the novel special, and that these subtle flavors could easily be lost in translation.
Thank you to Small Beer Press for giving us permission to publish this excerpt from Su Wei's novel The Invisible Valley, translated by Austin Woerner and released on April 3rd 2018.
Cagliari, my city, reaches out to the sea, but it's built on several hills. I imagined how it would be transformed following a rise in sea level, with people taking refuge on hills and on the roofs of the highest buildings, but, all in all, life would continue.
For our latest author interview we're excited to welcome Maria Haskins, author of 'Balawats portar' 'The Gates of Balawat', reprinted in our September issue, to talk to us about short fiction, museums and her favourite reads of 2017.
When you really love something, it's not enough to enjoy it only through other people's work. I think it is unavoidable that at some point you will try to engage with it, to become something more than a spectator.
The joy is crafting something that you feel best represents the text—and there is some satisfaction in maneuvering through rough waters (or around solar flares?) .
