Levi Thompson

Fiction, Iraq Levi Thompson, Yasmeen Hanoosh

New Fiction in Translation: Two Stories by Yasmeen Hanoosh

January 20, 2022

Yasmeen Hanoosh’s forthcoming short-story collection أطفال الجنة المنكوبة (Children of an Afflicted Paradise) was one of our “30 Reads: A Month of Iraqi Women Writers.” One short story from that […]

News Levi Thompson, Ramy al-Asheq

Publication Day: Ramy al-Asheq’s ‘My Heart Became a Bomb’

February 23, 2021

“We knew the hole that was in the back of the head / would try to swallow up whatever we threw behind us / like a vacuum cleaner”

Interviews, On Translation, Poetry Levi Thompson, Ramy al-Asheq

Finding a Voice in English for ‘My Heart Became a Bomb’

November 25, 2020

“Too frequently, I think, translators give in to the idea that a foreign text needs to retain a lot of that foreignness—this is Venuti’s foreignizing versus domesticating debate.”