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Canaan Morse
Canaan Morse is a literary translator, poet, and scholar of late imperial Chinese literature. His translations of Chinese prose and poetry have appeared in Kenyon Review, The Baffler, Southern Review, and many other journals, as well as twice in book form via the NYRB Classics Series. His translation of Ge Fei’s novel Peach Blossom Paradise was a Finalist for a 2021 National Book Award.

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Art

November 2012

Pending performance: Cally Spooner’s live production

Isabella Maidment

Art

November 2012

It’s 1957 and the press release still isn’t written[1] An actress dressed in black overalls stands on a theatrically...

Interview

Issue No. 15

Interview with Zadie Smith

Jennifer Hodgson

Interview

Issue No. 15

Zadie Smith’s biography is one of contemporary writing’s fondest and most famous yarns of precocious and meteoric literary success....

fiction

April 2012

They Told the Story from the Lighthouse

Chimene Suleyman

fiction

April 2012

I found Margate watching the sea. And I walked the streets thinking they had left it sometime in the...

 

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