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Glenn Shaheen on his poem, “Israel”
Glenn Shaheen’s poem, “Israel,” appears in our Spring 2012 issue, guest edited by Nick Flynn. “Israel” opens with these lines: Steam lifting from the highways, ascending to the heavens beneath the...
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Some Day
Some Day Shemi Zarhin Trans. Yardenne Greenspan New Vessel Press, October 2013 $16.99 450 pages What: Epic family drama With lots of: Food Also: Lust, love, loss, and longing Where: Tiberias, by...
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Discovering the Poetry of Yehuda Amichai
When you’re tired of the same old books but then you discover a new favorite, it’s a major event. It’s like finding liquid water on Mars: wonder and joy and promise where before you’d seen a barren...
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Out of the Blue and Onto the Page: How Translation Rekindled My Passion for...
When my mother, born in America to Israeli parents, first met my father in Tel Aviv, she said she knew he was right for her because he was an American living in Israel. As a young woman who grew up in...
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Hello from the Other Side: Why We Need and Ought to Translate and Read...
As children, we’re both fascinated with the idea of the great big world around us, and consumed with the notion that we are at its center. I recall sleepless nights, hearing my father return home late...
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There Are Places I Remember: on the Fine Line Between Fiction and Memoir in...
Sometimes it feels as if I’m not merely translating people’s stories into English, but helping people preserve their own lives, turning them into internationally comprehendible keepsakes. For every...
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Saar Yachin, Ethan Nichtern, and the Poetry of Instability
This month marks my eighth anniversary of living in America. When I moved here from Israel in 2010, as an American citizen who is fluent in English, I assumed fitting in would be a cinch, but I was...
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