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Where Words Dissolve: Yoko Tawada on Language as a Destabilizing Force

Where Words Dissolve: Yoko Tawada on Language as a Destabilizing Force

“I am searching for that state just before individual languages are dismantled—freed from their meanings and finally annihilated.”

By Yoko Tawada | August 18, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Kate Briggs Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Kate Briggs Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Mónica de la Torre, Roy Claire Potter, Ella Frears, and Others

By Diana Arterian | June 5, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Mónica de la Torre Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Mónica de la Torre Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Amelia Rosselli, Samuel Beckett, Prem Krishnamurthy, and Others

By Diana Arterian | March 13, 2025

Suggested in the Stars

Suggested in the Stars

Yoko Tawada (trans. Margaret Mitsutani)

By Lit Hub Excerpts | October 4, 2024

Ta-Nehisi Coates! Joyce Carol Oates! Karl Ove Knausgaard! 27 new books out today.

Ta-Nehisi Coates! Joyce Carol Oates! Karl Ove Knausgaard! 27 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | October 1, 2024

Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel

Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel

Yoko Tawada (trans. Susan Bernofsky)

By Lit Hub Excerpts | July 9, 2024

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Yoko Tawada! Taffy Brodesser-Akner! Reimagining Sylvia Plath! Deals with the Devil! 27 new books out today.

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Meet the 2022 National Book Award Finalists

By Emily Temple | November 9, 2022

Beyond Metafiction: A Reading List of Labyrinthine Realities

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Back to School for Everyone: Place, Space, and Landscape with Alexandra Kleeman

Back to School for Everyone: Place, Space, and Landscape with Alexandra Kleeman

Going to Ground in Fiction

By Alexandra Kleeman | September 6, 2022

Yoko Tawada Captures the Unique Joys of Having an Uncategorizable Identity

Yoko Tawada Captures the Unique Joys of Having an Uncategorizable Identity

Scattered All Over the Earth and the Experience of Losing a Mother Tongue">Yurina Yoshikawa on Scattered All Over the Earth and the Experience of Losing a Mother Tongue

By Yurina Yoshikawa | April 25, 2022

18 new books coming into the world today.

18 new books coming into the world today.

By Katie Yee | March 1, 2022

Yoko Tawada: 'Language is a Living Thing'

Yoko Tawada: 'Language is a Living Thing'

The Emissary in Conversation With Madeleine Thien ">The Author of The Emissary in Conversation With Madeleine Thien

By Literary Hub | April 1, 2020

Welcome to Women in Translation Month!

Welcome to Women in Translation Month!

By Aaron Robertson | August 1, 2019

Taking an Author's Photo Is Like Going on a First Date

Taking an Author's Photo Is Like Going on a First Date

Nina Subin on the Careful Process of Taking a Writer's Headshot

By Nina Subin | May 6, 2019

Meet National Book Award Finalist Margaret Mitsutani

Meet National Book Award Finalist Margaret Mitsutani

The Emissary ">The Translator of Yoko Tawada's The Emissary

By Emily Temple | November 2, 2018

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