Conversations

Conversations: Shin Yu Pai and Jaimie Li

Sometime grieving is positive; sometimes the letting go is necessary.

Conversations: Rone Shavers and Terese Svoboda

“The very idea of a container makes me itch to deconstruct it.”

Conversations: Adam Kirsch and Aviya Kushner

I think that belief in the eternal—in texts that will last—is something that can be felt across Jewish literature.

Conversations: Loie Rawding and Lauren Connell Johnson

For me, the environments that contain our bodies dictate, to a certain degree, what we are capable of.

Conversations: Nandini Bhattacharya and Clifford Garstang

Nandini Bhattacharya is an academic and author of the novel Love’s Garden (Aubade Publishing, 2020), a work of historical fiction that tells the stories of Indian women caught up in…

Conversations: John Hennessy, Ostap Kin & Serhiy Zhadan

A wide-ranging conversation among 3 authors across 2 languages, touching upon poetics and politics, the war in Ukraine, the pandemic, and more.

Conversations: Kirsten Greenidge and Melinda Lopez

Kirsten Greenidge is the Village Voice/Obie award-winning author of Milk Like Sugar and The Luck of the Irish, as well as the plays Little Row Boat; or, Conjecture, Our Duaghters,…

Conversations: Patti Marxsen and Madison Smartt Bell

I met Madison Smartt Bell on the veranda of the Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince in 1997 during a summer of communications work for Haiti’s Hôpital Albert Schweitzer. At the time,…

Conversations: Niloufar Talebi and Zack Rogow

The Critical Flame is thrilled to feature this conversation between author, award-winning translator, multidisciplinary artist, and producer Niloufar Talebi and author, editor, translator Zack Rogow. Special thanks are due to…

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