This week's What'SUP Blog, from the translator of Castigation: "As someone who has taken this book apart and put it together again in the process of translation, my advice is to give up all attempts to fit this tale into any frame you’ve previously encountered." press.syr.edu/excerpt-cast...

For Asymptote's blog, I reviewed CASTIGATION by Sultan Raev, translated from the Kyrgyz by Shelley Fairweather-Vega @syracuseup.bsky.social www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/09...

From Jennifer Grotz's book, Still Falling. Published by @graywolfpress.bsky.social. #poem #books #writing

“No matter how uncanny octopuses are, there’s something oddly familiar about them, something that helps us feel connected as we look across clades.” —Verlyn Klinkenborg

I have a new translation up at @thedialmag.bsky.social, Lauren Bastide's Courir l'escargot, which we're calling Consider the Snail. I loved this book & was so happy to get to translate some excerpts from it, about slowness, failure, grief, alterity, cycles, & goo www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

Born #onthisday in 1889, CK Scott Moncrieff, whose epic English translation of Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu is widely hailed as a masterpiece in its own right. His rendering of the title is not, however, considered a high point... publicdomainreview.org/essay/l... #otd

Following the lives of nine heiresses, @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social peers beneath the demure, empire-waisted image of the Georgian heiress to reveal a murky world of inheritance, fortune-hunting and human exploitation. Available to pre-order now⬇️ Amazon: bit.ly/4lcPIty Waterstones: bit.ly/4efwNfm

🆕 on Lab Games: nine writing exercises from Lucy Ives's forthcoming book "three six five: prompts, acts, divinations," a collection of a year’s worth of these prompts (out from Siglio Press in March 2026, available for preorder now). graywolflab.org/2025/09/12/f...

For ASYMPTOTE's blog, I reviewed THE INVESTIGATOR by Dragan Velikić, translated from the Serbian by Christina Pribichevich-Zorić, published by Istros. www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/09...

19 September 2023 @graywolfpress.bsky.social 📦 www.graywolfpress.org/books/box

Starting next Friday! Join me and the other incredible 2025 NEA Translation Fellows as we share a glimpse of our projects across five Friday Zooms. Register here to tune into the whole series: www.catranslation.org/event/works-...

We're 1 week away from DAY OF TRANSLATION 2025! Join us on 9/18 at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, NY. Free in-person or virtual registration open now for our three 12-5 pm panels. *Please note the keynote with Jhumpa Lahiri and Katie Kitamura is SOLD OUT.

GRACE PERIOD by the wonderful Maria Judite de Carvalho, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa @twolinespress.bsky.social Some thoughts from me on the novella here (and on Goodreads). Many thanks to Two Lines for the ARC! mandysuzannewong.substack.com/p/grace-period

My first reviews for ASYMPTOTE are live on the journal's "What's New in Translation" blog! Reviewing work translated from Kyrgyz, Serbian, and Russian this month, I'm extremely honored to be part of this project. Posts about the books to follow. www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/new-in-...

M Lin's THE MEMORY MUSEUM—an expansive debut story collection exploring the complex lives of women in China and the Chinese diaspora—is out April 21, 2026.⁠ #SneakPeek Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Really excellent article by @chadwpost.bsky.social in @worldlittoday.bsky.social on reviewing literature in translation -- which it's worth doing even if, like me, you're a monolingual born on a rock in the middle of the ocean. worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...

Daniel Moysaenko's OVERTAKELESSNESS—winner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award, selected by Alberto Ríos—is out April 7, 2026.⁠ @poetsorg.bsky.social Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/over...

ARCs!! Much gratitude to the team at @graywolfpress.bsky.social 🌊🪼🦑🐙💙 www.graywolfpress.org/books/daught...

Happy Women in Translation Month! To celebrate #WITmonth, we’re having a sale to help you stock up on must-read translated titles. Save 25% off all titles in our Literature in Translation Series written and/or translated by women until August 31, 2025. bookhugpress.ca/product-cate...

The Loft Marlen Haushofer translated by Amanda Prantera #witmonth

“You weren’t made for this life” Marina Tsvetaeva: To Die in Yelabuga by Vénus Khoury-Ghata – #KhouryGhata25 starts today! readinganactofsharedsolitude.wordpress.com/2025/08/13/y...

August marks Women in Translation month – on the Faber Journal, we’ve brought together a selection of books in translation by, or translated by, women. faber.co.uk/journal/women-in-translation-month-a-reading-list/

"Charlottesville: An American Story is not exactly a hopeful story, but it is one that refuses to let hate win. And that’s the version of this country I still want to believe in." @sarabethwest.bsky.social reviews CHARLOTTESVILLE by Deborah Baker. @graywolfpress.bsky.social

#SneakPeek 👀 @carolinaebeid.bsky.social's HIDE—a reinvention of visual poetry and personal history charting exile’s impact on memory, identity, and futurity—is out March 3, 2026.⁠ Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/hide...

Pic via HarperVia of the current window display at Kinokuniya midtown in Manhattan 🥰

@samwachman.bsky.social on the challenges of writing a novel about the war in Ukraine and literature as “a force for peace and solidarity.”

Looking forward to reading this month's WNIT column in Asymptote and all books mentioned therein. #WomeninTranslationMonth www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/08...

Arundhati Roy works among dozens of books banned in Indian-occupied Kashmir

“Hunger now governs time. It becomes the unrelenting measure by which each hour is known.” Alaa Alqaisi on life in Gaza through the lens of WB Yeats’s “The Second Coming.”

200 years before #Marvel & #StarWars, @profdanielcook.bsky.social argues, Walter Scott’s 1817 novel about the Scottish outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor helped create today’s fascination with “the anti-hero, the reluctant rebel” #WyrdWednesday #C19th #romanticism 💙📚 theconversation.com/two-centurie...

Reminder: our Women in Translation Month collection is currently 25% off!!~ (if you saw me post this earlier as a gif, forgetting that bluesky dot com doesn’t allow gifs, pls don’t tell anyone) sevenstories.com/blogs/385-ce...

One week till we launch 🔥🔥🔥 HOW TO BE UNMOTHERED: a Trinidadian memoir Link in bio for tickets 🔗 Come in person or livestream. See you there 💛

Want them all, @twolinespress.bsky.social 😍 www.catranslation.org/books/#displ...

August is #WomenInTranslationMonth — and a great opportunity to reaffirm the importance of human talent in creating literary translation. Learn more — and browse a new reading list curated by PEN America’s Translation Committee — at: pen.org/women-in-tra...

A great time to pick up your own beautiful copy of Unusual Fragments! www.catranslation.org/shop/book/un...

"A fierce examination of the unexamined life." GRACE PERIOD by Maria Judite de Carvalho, tr. by Margaret Jull Costa received a 🌟starred🌟 review from Kirkus! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Our next two stunning releases... 🪡 PATCHWORK by Tom Comitta 8/19/25 🏚️HELEN OF NOWHERE by Makenna Goodman 9/9/25 @tomcomitta.bsky.social

#WomenInTranslationMonth Let's take a moment to celebrate Carmen Boullosa and translator Samantha Schnee for the wondrous novel, THE BOOK OF ANNA. Russia. 1915. Boullosa tells a polyphonic and subversive tale of the Russian revolution through the lens of Tolstoy’s most beloved work.

#WomenInTranslation#Month Let's take a moment to celebrate Guadalupe Nettel and translator Rosalind Harvey for the gorgeous, heartbreaking (and globe-trotting) novel that is AFTER THE WINTER. New York City. Paris. Havana. Locations awash in love, grief, and memory. Dazzling.✨

I'll soon have the honor of joining ASYMPTOTE as a regular contributor to the indispensable "What's New In Translation" column. July's picks and reviews are top-notch. www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/07...

newly posted: Laura Kerr : Unfixed Readings : Fugue, Fire, Fish periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/08/laur...

From translator Jozefina Komporaly, #Hungarian author Andrea Tompa & publisher Istros Books comes HOME, a tale of homecoming after extended absence, which engages with the archaeology of the self in the context of estrangement & belonging: buff.ly/AUblFJy #hungarian #books

📢New blog post on feminist translation strategies by Jozefina Komporaly, translator from Hungarian and Romanian, including most recently 'MyLifeandMyLife' by Melinda Mátyus @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social and 'Home' by Andrea Tompa (Istros Books): feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2025/04/sign...

Essential advice for translators from Lara Vergnaud @wwborders.bsky.social "Do be patient, especially now, and maybe get yourself a side gig, especially now, and keep throwing books at the evil machines..." wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Well, the Winter 2026 catalogue is up @graywolfpress.bsky.social. My little book of essays, Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl, is in that catalogue -- in such company! -- and I couldn't be more delighted. 🐌🦑🐙🌊🪸💙 www.graywolfpress.org/winter-2026-...

“The dark experiences of being a refugee, of being in a country at war, they’re covered in silence, but somehow that silence is passed on from one generation to the next. We have it in us, we just don’t really know how to name it or how to find it.” buff.ly/zZIt52k

Some recommendations from me for #WITMonth. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/w... #womenintranslation #BookSky

After a brief summer break Your Own Private Bookstore is back starting this Friday! You can have the bookstore to yourself for an hour! (Lots of people give these as gifts for bookish friends.) More dates posted soon, but here's the link for Friday portersquarebooks.com/event/2025-0...

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF COTTON, a new novel by @criveragarza.bsky.social (trans. by Christina MacSweeney) is out Feb. 3rd 👀 Preorder today! bookshop.org/p/books/auto...

Thanks @carcanet.bsky.social – delighted about this and very grateful to the Anglo-Hellenic league, @jhcreerw.bsky.social @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social & the judges of the #Runciman Award.