prose — kbthors.com

Select Essays

The Globe & Mail Opinion: Amid Protests and a Pandemic, Alberta Threatens the Charter Right to Free Assembly

CBC/QWF: Everyone’s An Artist In Residence Now

CBC/QWF Montréal Writer in Residence: An Ode to Montréalers’ Winter Fashion

Québec Writers’ Federation Online: Choosing My Pen Name

Salon: Prince and the Queer Body

Guernica: Instagram and the Icelandic Language

Vida Web: Mentoring with Girls Write Now

Interviews

LARB Blog: More Than Enough For Everyone: Talking with Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel, editors of We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics

BOMB Magazine: Translating Science for the Heart: Andri Snær Magnason Interviewed by K.B. Thors

The Harvard Review: A Mischievous Process: Translating Ursula Andkjær Olsen, Katrine Øgaard Jensen interviewed by K.B. Thors

Newfound: Transgressions of Place in Poetry: Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl Talks Translation

BOMB Magazine: Desire to Disrupt: Nathanaël interviewed by K.B. Thors

The Rumpus: K.B. Thors interviews Jay Deshpande, author of Love the Stranger

Asymptote: An Interview with Sjón

Select Criticism

Arc Poetry Magazine: Piekuakami (The Lake): Spawn by Marie-Andreé Gill translated from francais québécois by Kristen Renee Miller

Carousel: Takako Arai’s Factory Girls

Arc Poetry Magazine: Jenna Butler’s Magnetic North

Lambda Literary: Surge by Etel Adnan

San Francisco Chronicle: The Unpassing by Chia-Chia Lin

Harvard Review: Third-Millenium Heart by Ursula Andkjær Olsen, translated from the Danish by Katrine Øgaard Jensen

EuropeNow: The Outlaw by Jón Gnarr, translated from the Icelandic by Lytton Smith

Harvard Review: Wayward Heroes by Halldór Laxness, translated from the Icelandic by Phillip Roughton