This county town’s famine is faraway, and mooring here is so miserable. Themountains advance from the south, the Yangtze’s gurgle carries up northward. —from 峡江县 (XIAJIANG COUNTY) and 黄金洲 (GOLDEN ISLAND), poems by Zhang Xun, translated by Bijaan Noormohamed (Volume 65, issue 3) Tell us about one of the first pieces you . . .
On March 24, 2026, as Argentinians prepare to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the coup d’etat that initiated the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional—the country’s bloodiest and most violent dictatorship in its history—I want to revisit La historia oficial [The Official Story] (1985), the award-winning film directed by Luis Puenzo which exposes the . . .
Jodi M. Savage (right) and her godmother Sister Christine (left). Tell us about your relationship to writing.I started out writing poetry and short stories. In college, I felt I needed to do something “practical,” so I became an attorney. But I still longed to be a writer. In my late twenties, I . . .
