Check in every Monday for our weekly list—ten handpicked articles from newspapers and literary magazines across the world.

Translation Tuesday: “A Hunger to Soothe” by Maartje Wortel
The short story from the Dutch author revolves around a widowed woman in search of warmth from a caressing hand.

Translation Tuesday: “A Hunger to Soothe” by Maartje Wortel - Asymptote Blog

It was like being very near to someone. It felt good and bewildering all at once, and then she realised: This is all me.

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Gabriel García Márquez: On Taking Writers at Their Word
A chapter from The Scandal of the Century: And Other Writings, translated by Anne McLean, questions why professors insist on symbolism everywhere.

Gabriel García Márquez: On Taking Writers at Their Word

A literature teacher warned the youngest daughter of a great friend of mine last year that her final exam would be on One Hundred Years of Solitude. The girl was frightened, with every reason, not …

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The Discreet Strength of Mercedes Barcha
Felipe Restrepo Pombo's tribute to Barcha, in translation by Ezra E. Fitz, recognizes her essential role in Márquez's literary success.

The Discreet Strength of Mercedes Barcha

Mercedes Barcha is best known for her marriage of nearly sixty years to Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez. Today, on what would have been her eighty-eighth birthday, Felipe Restrepo Pombo turns the spotlight from Gabo to Mercedes, remembering her strength of

wordswithoutborders.org

"The Fungal Piece of Shit Tells Me the Name of God" and Other Poems
Read three pieces from the first women to win the Singapore Literature Prize for poetry in the English language with her debut collection, Gaze Back.

"The Fungal Piece of Shit Tells Me the Name of God" and Other Poems —

Three Poems by Marylyn Tan.

singaporeunbound.org

Close to the wounds, but even closer to hope
Amal Ibrahim, Azhar Ali Hussein, Rola Buraq and Birgit Svensson return with the diverse second volume of their Inanna anthology, “Mit den Augen von Inana” (Through the Eyes of Inanna).

Showcasing the writing of Iraqi women: Close to the wounds, but even closer to hope - Qantara.de

The second volume of “Mit den Augen von Inana” (Through the Eyes of Inanna) is an impressive collection of purely female perspectives on modern Iraq, from the Saddam era through to the contemporary Tahrir Revolution. Christopher Resch spoke to three of the authors

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When Waking Begins
Read an excerpt from The Book of Sleep, written by Haytham El Wardany and translated by Robin Moger, which is considered a landmark in contemporary Arabic literature for its subversion of genre.

When Waking Begins

In ‘The Arcades Project,’ Walter Benjamin writes, “The coming awakening stands, like the Greeks’ wooden horse, in the Troy of dreams.”

theparisreview.org

Toni Morrison’s Personal Library Is Now Available to Purchase
Morrison's collection has recently been put up for sale and Michelle Sinclair Colman reveals the surprising and the not-so surprising titles in there.

Toni Morrison’s Personal Library Is Now Available to Purchase

Galerie Magazine

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Inferno
An excerpt from the memoir, shortlisted for the 2020 Young Writer of the Year Award, dives into the moment in time when Cho was diagnosed with postpartum psychosis.

Inferno | Catherine Cho

An excerpt from Inferno: A Memoir, by Catherine Cho, shortlisted for the 2020 Sunday Times / University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award.

granta.com

Review: 'Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land,' by N. Scott Momaday
Linda Legarde Grover's review of Pulitzer Prize-winning Kiowa writer N. Scott Momaday's Earth Keeper, a collection of short essays, is succinct like the book itself.

Review: 'Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land,' by N. Scott Momaday

NONFICTION: Pulitzer Prize-winning Kiowa writer N. Scott Momaday's essays honor the relationship of Indigenous and all people to the Earth.

startribune.com

COMICS A-Z: HISTORY FROM PERSIA TO TUNISIA
In the ongoing series of recommendations, S.W. Sondheimer's picks for the week include A Bride's Story, Vol. 1 by Kaoru Mori and After the Spring: A Story of Tunisian Youth by Helene Aldeguer.

Comics A-Z: History From Persia to Tunisia | Book Riot

This Comics A-Z deep dive is going back into time. We're talking history, comics style. Let's look at these comics, from Persia to Tunisia.

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