Edgar Calabia Samar of the Philippines begins the panel with a discussion of the power of lists on readership. He states that the danger that lists of canonical books is the fact they ignore potentially significant works and may further limit...
Doris Kareva discusses her belief that literary translation is akin to alchemy, being about creation and recreation, and that transformation is only possible through passionate people taking on texts that are absolutely necessary for them to...
Maryam Ala Amjadi is a poet and translator from Iran. For her, the act of translating is in itself a form of self-exile, because the writer is forced to distance themselves from their mother tongue and in so doing, they become spectators both of...
Etgar Keret was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel in 1967. His latest book, The Nimrod Flipout, was published in spring 2006 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He participated in the 2001 International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. '600 Words'...
A documentary examining the Dec. 5, 1967, demonstration against Dow Chemical's manufacture of napalm during the Vietnam War and its recruitment on The University of Iowa campus.