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Jacob Silkstone

Roving Eye, SpotlightApril 16, 2017

Author of the Month: Ama Asantewa Diaka

By Ama Asantewa Diaka, Jacob Silkstone

“We write so we do not have memory alone to rely on, so that we do not forget — who we are, where we have come from and all the things that we can be.”
Ama Asantewa Diaka, The Missing Slate’s Author of the Month (January 2017), talks to Jacob Silkstone.

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Roving Eye, SpotlightMarch 11, 2017

Spotlight Translator: Rosie Hedger

By Jacob Silkstone, Rosie Hedger

“I don’t think there has ever been a better time for publishers to focus on translated literature…”
As part of our Spotlight Translator series, Jacob Silkstone interviews Rosie Hedger.

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Alone in Babel, Arts & CultureMarch 7, 2017

Z213: Exit

By Jacob Silkstone

“The narrative is fragmented and nightmarish, existing in a state of almost-perpetual darkness, but perhaps necessarily so…”
Jacob Silkstone reviews ‘Z213: Exit’, the first volume in Dimitris Lyacos’ Poena Damni trilogy.

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Fiction, LiteratureMarch 3, 2017

To the West Ice

By Rosie Hedger, Tor Even Svanes

“This will be her first ever voyage to the West Ice… Inexperienced. Alone…”
Story of the Week (March 3), by Tor Even Svanes. Translated from Norwegian by Rosie Hedger.

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Literature, PoetryFebruary 15, 2017

From ‘Petra’

By Amjad Nasser, Fady Joudah

“El-Siq says, be patient,/ persist for your eyes and feet/ to deserve this journey’s exhaustion./ The road will lengthen between light and shadow,/ the sky will disappear…”
Poem of the Week (February 15), by Amjad Nasser. Translated from Arabic by Fady Joudah.

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Literature, PoetryFebruary 8, 2017

The Worst Ghosts

By Hala Alyan

“Define in, I say when anyone asks/ if I’ve ever been in a war…”
Poem of the Week (February 8), by Hala Alyan.

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Literature, PoetryJanuary 25, 2017

a dream of Barbara Hepworth’s greenhouse

By Edwina Attlee

“In the grass and tree light and in the trees around me (though I cannot see) the men are turning to gold.”
Poem of the Week (January 25), by Edwina Attlee.

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Literature, PoetryJanuary 18, 2017

after Francis Thompson: a glosa

By John Robert Lee

“at the turning of the year// in sight of 70, anticipating retreat/ I know the Kingdom’s door will swing//to receive me soon some new year morning…”
Poem of the Week (January 18), by John Robert Lee.

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Alone in Babel, Arts & CultureJanuary 16, 2017

Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines

By Pratyusha Prakash

“Its fragmentation gives … the impression of a Japanese fan: a wealth of perspectives, intricate etchings in every panel…”
Pratyusha Prakash on Natalie Wee’s ‘Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines’.

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Fiction, LiteratureJanuary 13, 2017

The Child That I Was Not

By Uzoamaka Doris Aniunoh

“I could have sworn the man was Papa, except he was lying on the road, dead…”
Story of the Week (January 13), by Uzoamaka Doris Aniunoh. Selected by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

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