The Brooklyn Quarterly

TBQ: Your web site describes Public Books as "created by and for a transnational community of writers, artists, and activists. How do you define "transnational," and how does it define you as Public Books? I define transnational as comprising multiple nations and multiple languages and communities within each nation. This means covering the experience of people in the United States who weren't born here, or who live here only part of the time, or who express themselves in multiple languages. It also means paying attention to the voices of immigrants and expats in the literature of other countries as well. I'd like us to keep doing more and more of this, and to publish more reviews of work published in languages other than English. We have partnerships with foreign cultural organizations and publications, such as Villa Gillet in France, and we regularly get requests to reprint our work from editors in other countries.