Literature

Fiction, Literature

The Investigation

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“Promised me the world, he wanted me so bad. Yulish, you’re going to have a good life with me, that’s what he said. You don’t need the village. You’re going to like it better in the mountains, as long as the Good Lord keeps me in good health. I make enough money to raise ten kids. Now you see, it’s come to nothing.” Story of the Week (March 27), by Zoltán Böszörményi. Translated from Hungarian by Paul Sohar.

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Literature, Poetry

Beauty of Lahore

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“the sea of motor cars floods these city streets/ as though to stop for a second would halt its tides forever…” Poem of the Week (March 24), by Afshan Sajjad. Translated from Urdu by Jim Carruth.

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Fiction, Literature

Memories of Mission Valley

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“Mission Valley School, despite the name, wasn’t a relic of the Raj. The neo-Gothic brick buildings of our small campus did remind one of a different era, but the British missionaries—for whose children the school had been originally established—had decamped long ago…” Story of the Week (March 20), by Murali Kamma.

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Fiction, Literature

Greatest of These

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“It was a picture of St. Christopher hanging above two portraits of the children, the same two portraits as those in the basement. He said he had hung it there to remind himself that he wasn’t an evil person.” Story of the Week (March 13), by Henriette Houth. Translated from Danish by Mark Mussari.

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Literature, Poetry

Last Call

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“I glimpsed inside Bacon’s studio/ at scattered imagery and piled texts: The Book of Monkeys and Diseases/ of the Human Mouth…” Weekend Poem, by Peter Marcus

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