Thanks to the dedication of editors Adam Morris  and Bruno Carvalho , Essays on Hilda Hilst: Between Brazil and World Literature , the f...

Last year I had the pleasure of translating a small cache of poems by Arnaldo Antunes (1960-), a Brazilian musician, composer and writ...

Literary translation is, as anyone who engages in it knows, a labor of love. The financial rewards are minimal, and outside of the case o...

A few posts back I mentioned that the somewhat altered and edited version of an online roundtable discussion about Hilda Hilst was now l...

The young Hilda Hilst Over the last few months I participated in an online roundtable about Hilda Hilst , whose sublime and sublimely ...

"He was telluric and unique. He was dreaming. He dreamed of goodbyes and shadows. He dreamed of gods. He was cruel because he had al...

Francisco Alvim (Photo: Bel Pedroso) Recently I was reading poet Francisco Alvim 's (b.  Araxá , Brazil , 1938-)  Poemas (1968-2000...

A few weeks back, I mentioned the imminent publication of The Obscene Madame D , the first published English translation of fiction by th...

Once upon a time, when I was younger, and certain writers published new books, if I could afford to, I would rush to the nearest books...