Awam Amkpa portrait

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.

My East in Venice

April 3, 2017
Piecing together a fragmented Palestinian family.

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.

Haiti

January 13, 2012
In the first piece in our Writers Bloc project, our collection of essays about education systems around the world, writer Nathalie Handal visits Haiti a year after its devastating earthquake.