This is an English translation of four ghazals by Nalî (c. 1800 – c. 1856).
Mallah Khidir, known by his pen name Nalî, was the most important Kurdish poet of the nineteenth century. He founded the Sorani School of Kurdish poetry, a literary movement which remains influential in the Sorani dialect of Kurdish today. Most of Nali’s early poetr…[Read more]

This parallel English translation of “Del Nacimiento, romance” by San Juan de la Cruz (Saint John of the Cross) employs the traditional English ballad meter to convey the literary and folkloric effects of San Juan’s original.

This is a traditional Philippine folktale, translated from Hiligaynon.

This essay endeavours to document and analyze Yezidis’ perspectives on their community’s recent suffering and on their community’s future, in their own terms. It does so by examining, specifically, Yezidi oral prophecies concerning the rise of Islamic State (ISIS) and the genocidal campaigns of 2014. The study is based on in-depth personal inter…[Read more]

This article describes and discusses a ring with a Spanish inscription, which was excavated in Lalish in December 2018.

This review evaluates Fredo Arias de la Canal’s anthology of early modern Spanish sonnets.

This review assesses Prendergast’s study of the Spanish Inquisition’s impact on early modern Spanish literature.

This article offers a sampling of 11 traditional Spanish proverbs and aphorisms about blacksmithing in English translation.

This is an English translation of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza’s sonnet, “Cual simple mariposa vuelvo al fuego.”

This review critiques Sliwa’s collection of contemporaneous ephemera by and about Lope de Vega.

This review critiques Wagschal’s study of jealousy in early modern Spanish literature.

This microcuento retells and extends a legend about Hanno the Great of Carthage.

This microcuento imitates the manner of the traditional fable or etiological tale.

This review assesses James Raven’s masterful overview of commercial evolutions in the English publishing trade over four hundred years, from the dawn of moveable type in the mid fifteenth century to the changes in production and marketing techniques of the nineteenth century.

This interview makes the case for unity between STEM and language arts, and offers advice on what students can do to make the most out of whichever field they choose.

The Yezidis have conserved and perpetuated their religion largely via a complex body of customs and oral tradition, rather than in a fixed, canonical text. Variation in ceremonies and doctrine is likely, if not inevitable. Their baptismal rite, through innovation and the discarding of certain features, has evolved within the community’s living m…[Read more]

This microcuento imagines an alternative to the Tower of Babel — and comments on music’s ability to transcend the limits of language.

This poem reimagines a fragment of Tennyson’s “Crossing the Bar” to consider the implications of modern medicine’s life-prolonging treatments.

This chapter explores the innovative analogies by which José María Merino represents his microfiction.

This essay, written by invitation of The Globe Post on the occasion of the Kurdish referendum on independence in 2017, envisions a way forward for a more unified Kurdistan: a form of ethnic federalism in order to avoid balkanization.