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Fiction.Mar 24, 2017

Thirteen

“…the travelers suddenly saw, as though coming to meet them, a big truck flying toward them from the rocky crest.” Story of the Week (March 24), by Alisa Ganieva. Translated from the Russian by Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler.

By Fiction Team
Fiction.Mar 24, 2017

Тринадцать

Original Russian text of Alisa Ganieva’s ‘Thirteen’.

By Fiction Team
Fiction.Nov 27, 2015

A Marble Paleness

Story of the Week (November 27), excerpted from Michal Hvorecký’s novel ‘Danube in America’. Translated from Slovak by Eva Hudecová and Mark Lencho.

By Jacob Silkstone
Fiction.Nov 27, 2015

Mramorová bledosť

Original Slovak text of Michal Hvorecký’s ‘A Marble Paleness’.

By Jacob Silkstone
Fiction.Nov 21, 2015

The End of Childhood

Story of the Week (November 20), excerpted from Michal Hvorecký’s novel ‘Danube in America’. Translated from Slovak by Eva Hudecová and Mark Lencho.

By Jacob Silkstone
Fiction.Nov 21, 2015

Koniec detstva

Original Slovak text of Michal Hvorecký’s ‘The End of Childhood’.

By Jacob Silkstone
Literature.Mar 10, 2015

Four Songs

“…at daybreak at noon/ the sun’s feeble shafts/ step into the room…” Poem of the Week (March 10), by Martyn Crucefix.

By Poetry Team
Literature.Jan 4, 2015

New Year’s Resolutions

“Welcome new year/ just what we need…” Weekend poem, by Benny Andersen. Translated from Danish by Michael Goldman.

By Jacob Silkstone
Arts & Culture.Oct 15, 2014

Testimony in Sepia

“I took a photograph in which Lucy looks at me while Philip lovingly touches her young shoulder with his young nose.” By Veera Jansa, from The Missing Slate’s fiction workshop in Islamabad.

By Jacob Silkstone