Sleepwalker
February 19, 2025
What a strange land this is / I don't remember the names of the birds
Nathalie Handal
When He Said His Name
February 19, 2025
the white labyrinth of love moved my flesh / and grew the time of guilt
Requiem for my ancestor’s fig tree
February 16, 2025
Which hand sowed the ashes / where the ancestor planted life
Awam Amkpa: What’s Missing Will be Found
October 27, 2024
The Nigerian director on his longtime relationship with Wole Soyinka, and making The Man Died, inspired by his friend’s prison memoir.
Natalie Diaz and Nathalie Handal: Map of the Next World
October 19, 2020
The two award-winning poets consider borders, both real and figurative, through the lens of their new collections.
After Kaddish
September 27, 2018
Skeletons in our minds, it’s a private grief, a private grief, you hear.
The Night and Nightingale
March 1, 2017
I ran my hands through his hair as if counting the seconds of my life.
Kamal Aljafari: Unfinished Balconies in the Sea
February 18, 2016
Filmmaker Kamal Aljafari talks to Nathalie Handal about the poetry of memory, and displacement in Palestine
Elisa Biagini: A World Reinvented Through Poetry
February 7, 2014
Nathalie Handal talks to the Italian poet about her sometimes disturbing imagery and how her work helps us decipher the world.
Last Night in San Pedro de Macorís
June 25, 2013
Some people like ideas, others like motion, some like one woman, others roam.
Jonathan Galassi: Against the Line
June 1, 2012
The literary legend on his new book of poetry, about a personal evolution, and those he's published; MFA's and prizes; and the ongoing river of language.
Mark Strand: Not Quite Invisible
April 15, 2012
Pultizer Prize-winner Mark Strand on falling in love, leaving the U.S., and the next chapter.
We Are All Going to Die
January 15, 2011
One year after the earthquake that devastated her native Haiti, the novelist on rebuilding the island, art in a time of trouble, and inhabiting bodies.