“It seemed that we had, indeed, left the wolves behind—but they soon returned.” Revisiting my translation of Bhuwaneshwar's iconic Hindi short story Wolves, published in @wwborders.bsky.social: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Winter mornings, Jaipur.

Every time I read the play, I think about the murky borders between the truth and narratives. The person and its silhouette. beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/12/29/w...

Every time I read the play, I think about the murky borders between the truth and narratives. The person and its silhouette. beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/12/29/w...

"In the 1984 song “Material Girl”, Madonna declares that she is a material girl. She uses logic that’s hard to argue with since she insists that we all must be material because we are living in a material world." beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/12/26/m...

"In the 1984 song “Material Girl”, Madonna declares that she is a material girl. She uses logic that’s hard to argue with since she insists that we all must be material because we are living in a material world." beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/12/26/m...

Jaipur light update.

Pink city winters.

Jaipur light update.

This week in the poetry blogs w/ @kent-nj.bsky.social @saudaminideo.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @linarvitvideopoet.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social @matriches.bsky.social @beckyltuch.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/12/poet...

From Anne Carson’s groundbreaking translations to Geetanjali Shree’s Booker-winning work, @saudaminideo.bsky.social explores the complex dynamics of translation, cultural appropriation, and the reception of non-Western literature in the Western literary world. wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

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Absolutely delighted to see my essay Postcolonial Translations and the Reception of Indian Literature in the West in Words Without Border's top ten pieces of 2025. wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

It has not been long enough to call this hallucinatory city home but it has been long enough to not find it entirely foreign: it is a liminal city, like a person who you have known for a long time and then suddenly not  at  all. beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/12/17/l...

Delighted to see my translation of Alok Dhanwa's poetry collection The World is Made Up Every Day, published by Seagull Books, in Frontline's list of new books: frontline.thehindu.com/books/new-bo...

Having given up on a literary career (like George Costanza, I am a great quitter), these days I am failing at far more profound things: moral clarity, politics, ethics, being a good person, etc. beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/12/11/o...

Having given up on a literary career (like George Costanza, I am a great quitter), these days I am failing at far more profound things: moral clarity, politics, ethics, being a good person, etc. beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/12/11/o...

Me in Jaipur next month:

Noël x Paris (part deux)

My Russian Christmas tree that immediately reminded me of Soviet children’s book illustrations, the world of Raduga Publishers.

My Russian Christmas tree that immediately reminded me of Soviet children’s book illustrations, the world of Raduga Publishers.

Noël x Paris (part deux)

Me in Jaipur next month:

Sharing this excellent essay on translation and literary memory. It briefly touches on an older piece I wrote for @wwborders.bsky.social, placing it in a broader discussion. A rich read for anyone exploring multilingual literary histories. sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/resta...

Submissions are now open for RIC Journal's annual themed anniversary issue. This year's theme is *Intimate Anatomy*. Send us work that listens closely to the body, its secrets, frictions, ruptures, and revelations. Details here: ricjournal.com/2025/11/19/i...

The November 2025 issue of RIC Journal is now live. ✨ New texts, new wounds, new luminescences: poems, images, essays, fragments, voices touching at the edges of language. Please read and share: ricjournal.com

Even my own image sometimes seems another’s. Somewhere last night in Paris, by Buku Sarkar.

Two years ago, I spoke to Tristan Foster about my translation practice and the continuing project of translating Hindi literature's outsiders into English. The project continues with Alok Dhanwa's The World is Made Up Every Day, with more to come later. www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2023/05...

Two years ago, I spoke to Tristan Foster about my translation practice and the continuing project of translating Hindi literature's outsiders into English. The project continues with Alok Dhanwa's The World is Made Up Every Day, with more to come later. www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2023/05...

Absolutely delighted to announce that my translation of Alok Dhanwa's cult Hindi poetry collection The World is Made Up Every Day is now available worldwide. Preorder now on Amazon or directly on University of Chicago Press. Published by Seagull Books. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Absolutely delighted to announce that my translation of Alok Dhanwa's cult Hindi poetry collection The World is Made Up Every Day is now available worldwide. Preorder now on Amazon or directly on University of Chicago Press. Published by Seagull Books. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Hard to not feel like we are living amid the death of the U.S. research university — for all its problems, a truly important institution. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

This week in the poetry blogs with @jntod.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social @willsjack.bsky.social @salenagodden.bsky.social @shotscarecrow.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social @saudaminideo.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/10/poet...

It’s nice that, like an apple, I have skin. beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/10/08/i...

It’s nice that, like an apple, I have skin. beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/10/08/i...

This week in the poetry blogs w/ @pearlpoet.bsky.social @roguestrands.bsky.social @saudaminideo.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @kristybowen.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social 1/2 www.vianegativa.us/2025/09/poet...

The Louvre and the ass of a horse: beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/09/10/t...

Thrilled to share extracts from my novel The Orange Notebooks @pressassembly.bsky.social in @electricliterature.com introduced by @rachelcantor.bsky.social 🙏 "Moving & masterful, this book, at its heart, is about love..& how we manage when that love is lost." electricliterature.com/the-orange-n...

This week in the poetry blogs with @kent-nj.bsky.social @saudaminideo.bsky.social @racheldacusauthor.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social @mcrucefix.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/08/poet...

"I would like to die in a forest somewhere looking through a telescope." beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/08/14/t...

Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.

This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.

"I would like to die in a forest somewhere looking through a telescope." beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/08/14/t...

"I had no idea where the village of Paris began and ended." Banlieues Chéries: beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/08/09/b...

"I had no idea where the village of Paris began and ended." Banlieues Chéries: beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/08/09/b...

This week in the poetry blogs w/ @beckyltuch.bsky.social @saudaminideo.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @matthewepaul.bsky.social @kathrynanna.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/08/poet...

I am sometimes in the 21st and sometimes in the 15th century. What does it all mean? Nothing except that we don’t know anything. beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/08/04/r...

I am sometimes in the 21st and sometimes in the 15th century. What does it all mean? Nothing except that we don’t know anything. beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/08/04/r...