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This March, our reviewers bring nine titles from eight countries—Langston Hughes' long overdue translations from Mexico and Cuba, a trypophobic reverie from the French, and more:
https://t.co/qB3QfHvhrY
What's new in translation this month?
The aftermath of the Haitian revolution, medical ethics in post-WW2 Japan and the symbolism of gendered nouns in Turkish. Find out more in Asymptote's reviews: https://t.co/Q8weHSUOgl
Ten titles, ten countries!
Read reviews of poetry anthologies featuring testimonies from the genocide in Gaza; a delicate and revelatory Serbian novel parsing lineage and dementia; a Russian master’s memoirs of his infamous literary friends, and more…
https://t.co/Hya3AJwoJm
For May, reviewed 4 more incredible works in translation for the Asymptote blog, by @EnardMathias tr @avecsesdoigts; @mohamedkheir tr @RobinMoger; Alexander Kluge tr Vennewitz & Booth; and Rita Halász tr Kris(ten) Herbert
Our editors read the world—and this month, they present you with 13 of the best new titles in translation.
From Italy to Egypt, Poland to Korea, we present a dazzling array of texts like 'kaleidoscopic puzzle-pieces'... Find out what's new in translation: https://t.co/DANtxuQpnH
for Asymptote's "new in translation" column, I reviewed 4 sweeping books about deportation during WWII, reconstructing a Lebanese family saga, the "last surrealist" Marianne Ivsic, and a love affair with a troll (literal) @7StoriesPress@otherpress@CommonNotions@PushkinPress
What better way to end 2024 than with a round-up of the best new books in world lit?
Spanning Germany, Lebanon, Taiwan, Tunisia and more—our editors bring you tales of adventure, rediscovered poetry, letters, and stories tinged with horror and fantasy: https://t.co/JNJlNISsuX
What better way to end 2024 than with a round-up of the best new books in world lit?
Spanning Germany, Lebanon, Taiwan, Tunisia and more—our editors bring you tales of adventure, rediscovered poetry, letters, and stories tinged with horror and fantasy: https://t.co/JNJlNISsuX
'I think optimism is a solution to our very deep trauma... If you didn’t view life that way, you just wouldn’t survive.'
Moldovan author Liliana Corobca and her translator @MonicaCure discuss historical memory—and the importance of both drama and humor: https://t.co/0qPudFxxpL
I had such a great time speaking with @stefantobler of And Other Stories about the relationship between indie presses and international lit, his experiences translating and publishing Lutz Seiler, & upcoming @andothertweets titles
Putting Words First: an interview with Publisher and Translator Stefan Tobler – New Books in German (https://t.co/GFYybXMG6m)
@andothertweets@stefantobler
For @LAReviewofBooks, I wrote about two newly translated (unsettling, outstanding) collections of Wolfgang Hilbig's early prose and poetry (from @TwoLinesPress & @sublunaryeds) https://t.co/wjFzh9WJz9
"Hilbig’s short fiction is nightmarish and anxiety-inducing, tales of disorientation, surveillance, and divided identity." @rgm314 reviews Wolfgang Hilbig’s “Under the Neomoon” and “Territories of the Soul / On Intonation." https://t.co/5cAhXiGo03
A brief reflection on literary serendipity, 3 book recs, and a shout-out for my favorite essays on KAIROS in the wake of this week's Erpenbeck/Hofmann win, by @ajbwells & @rossmbenjamin (& a superb GDR essay by @lizzy_kinch), link in my bio!
@PressIndigoThe publisher @SusieLiterature talks to us about founding an independent press, the search for justice in contemporary fiction and forthcoming Indigo Press titles in translation.
https://t.co/nVoFcuPkB3
Interviewed Albert Eibl about his incredible Verlag: "...a playing field, networking arena, and platform that makes the wrongfully forgotten works of earlier days newly––or in some cases, for the very first time––accessible to a broad, historically interested reading public."
Austrian publisher Albert Eibl speaks with Regan Mies about the mission of Das vergessene Buch Verlag (DVB), exile writers and the importance of “forgotten literature.”
https://t.co/geP4vLxJ4t