Four star review for THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY from @sfxmagazine.bsky.social "An admirably ambitious novel that repays slow reading... "

"Portrays a changing Hong Kong alongside developments in London’s Chinatown, delivering a touching look at the search for home." @ala-booklist.bsky.social "A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the lived generational texture of what’s happening now in Hong Kong.” @naoisedolan.bsky.social

Does Hernan Diaz know that his novel TRUST is how Dua Lipa met her now husband Callum Turner? Idk why I'm obsessed with this fact

Aquí vínculo al número completo de la Revista de la Universidad de México dedicado al tema Calor: www.revistadelauniversidad.mx/releases/52d...

New releases in translation from Ecuador, Montenegro, and Vietnam—find all these and more in @tobiascarroll.bsky.social's latest Watchlist. See Tobias Carroll’s six picks here:

Two main exemplars of China’s new workers’ literature available in translation, both highly recommended. They are breathtaking memoirs of migrant workers going through staggering numbers of jobs & places. Hu Anyan’s was a bestseller, Xiao Hai’s is due to be published in China only later this year.

Out today! #SFinTranslation

We are delighted & honored today to share poetry by May Ziadeh in Rose DeMaris's translation for #TheMonthofMay. Join us for more at ArabLit and the May Ziadeh lit salon on May 31. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/may-ziadeh...

Make a Cup of Coffee One day. One coffee shop. One man. The quiet war between survival, dignity and the performance of service — a story by Chizi Pswarayi t.ly/32ZIQ

Book Digest: Lawrence Darmani, Tlotlo Tsamaase, Yaya Ezail Kassé, Temi Oh #NewBooks #Poetry #Fiction www.writingafrica.com/book-digest-...

Some great Global South titles here! 👇

It's PUB DAY for @jeremytiang.bsky.social's translation of Xu Zenchen's NIGHT TRAIN (@twolinespress.com). Here's an unmissable reading from this tale of social disparity, and the devastating consequences of lies told by foolish young men. Enjoy! buff.ly/vrTIjPL

You can now savour, in all their juiciness, the acceptance speeches from this year’s International Booker Prize winners Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and Lin King. Head on over to our Ampersand blog: www.andotherstories.org/2026/05/20/t...

Spent Bullets “demonstrates some of the consequences of striving, consequences that are deepened by the cultural dissonance that comes with immigration . . .” Lauren Bo reviews Terao Tetsuya’s “existential debut short-story collection.” worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/may/spe...

Call Out: Writing Workshop and Mentoring Programme for Early Career Scholars based in Eastern and Southern Africa Deadline: 25 May africanbookscollective.com/call-out-wri...

Classic Short Fiction: East Is East "He stood bewildered at the crossroads, not knowing which way to take." Classic short fiction about Arabs in early twentieth century Paris by Fouad Elshayeb.

Conversations With a Married Woman: Marriages End Over Small Issues An essay that delves into the complexities of married life as told by a married woman — from Valerie Tendai Chatindo t.ly/1sk22

The Granta controversy surrounding a Commonwealth Prize-winning story tells us less about AI than about the enduring metropolitan expectation that writing from the South should sound opaque, excessive, and primitive. africasacountry.com/2026/05/how-...

Book Digest: Cheryl S. Ntumy, Chanel Sutherland, Y. M. Abdel-Magied, Servio Gbadamosi #NewBooks #Fiction #Poetry www.writingafrica.com/book-digest-...

The 100 best novels list that came out recently features only a few Global South books. Yet the Global South has produced a vast number of brilliant, aesthetically innovating, and highly influential novels. What are your favorites? Some novels might include:

The Republic of Memory x Mahmud El Sayed

Read an extract from Meena Kandasamy's new novel, FIELDWORK AS A SEX OBJECT, where protagonist Amy/Amrita's world begins to reel when a deepfake porno of hers goes viral. buff.ly/9cWq8FN

Adipo Sidang’s In The Seashell Hum: A New Kenyan Play About Mental Health #Theatre #kenya www.writingafrica.com/adipo-sidang...

We're a new network of and for people interested in Global South literatures. Follow us and stay tuned for future events and opportunities starting this summer!

Sin Is a Puppy That Follows You Home by Balaraba Ramat Yakubu. translated from Hausa by Aliyu Kamal www.blaft.com/collections/... (Disclosure: I am the publisher and editor)

I'd like so many more people to read this one

I'm having late coffee, time for books

Some recent reads as I finished up writing some stuff! The standouts here are -Ethan Rutherford’s NORTH SUN, -Sarah Winman’s TIN MAN, -Karan Mahajan’s THE COMPLEX, -Nina McConigley’s HOW TO COMMIT A POSTCOLONIAL MURDER -Anthony Shapland’s A ROOM ABOVE A SHOP -Diamond Forde’s THE BOOK OF ALICE

The Materialization of Time in the Ancient Maya World: Mythic History and Ritual Order mexicanists.org/2026/05/17/t...

I published the speech I read during the Latiné Student Celebration in my newsletter. If you wish to read it, link is in the photo

Head to this link and click 'Notify me' to receive a notification as begin streaming the International Booker Prize 2026 winner announcement. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxCX...

The 100 best novels list that came out recently features only a few Global South books. Yet the Global South has produced a vast number of brilliant, aesthetically innovating, and highly influential novels. What are your favorites? Some novels might include:

Thinking for no reason at all about a book chapter I wrote on Roberto Bolaño's 2666 ("The Part About Fate"), translation, and Bolaño writing in the style of bad translations. File available here. Full title: "'Like in the Gringo Movies': Translatorese and the Global in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666"

Our first (online) event will be a discussion of a contemporary global south literary work. We will aim for shorter and easily accessible texts. Do you have any titles you'd like to see on the list?

One of the things we are interested in is the role of + issues in translation re: the Global South (including and especially South-South!) Give us a follow and get in touch! We are planning to organize online sessions where we'll discuss books, authors, scholarly work, history, theory and more!

A study of racial politics mounts a challenge to area studies. Books in brief: Transpacific Nonencounters: Racial Disconnects Across Twentieth-Century Japan and Mexico #Pacific #race #decolonialism #racism #women #Japan latamrob.substack.com/p/invisible-...

Mexican and Cuban stories translated by Langston Hughes make a radical debut. Books in brief: Troubled Lands: Stories of Mexico and Cuba #LatinAmerica #Bookreviews #fiction #literature #Black latamrob.substack.com/p/revolution...

"This new translation of Sawanih Fatat, brought forth by a collective of women translators and editors, echoes the text’s own opening gesture: a 'we' that writes, reads, and reclaims together." arablit.org/2026/05/01/m...

“For readers of Arabic, there is a thriving independent press scene in Egypt.” In our cover feature, Gretchen McCullough writes about a “parallel ecosystem—less visible internationally, perhaps, but deeply rooted in local reading cultures.” worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/may/boo...

Read ANTI-CASTE SF edited by R T Samuel et al! Featuring a ghost story by Bama, Western Ghats solarpunk by Hameedha Khan, Kolkata cyborgs by Prachi Singh, a Sanatan videogame comic by Kunal Lokhande, an excerpt from Gautamiputra Kamble's THE SEEKERS, and lots more www.blaft.com/collections/...

𝗘𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝘆 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳. Jeff Tompkins uses two New York Review Books collections to map Eileen Chang's career across its early Shanghai brilliance and its long, solitary exile: "Who is this shapeshifter, this woman of a thousand faces?" chajournal.com/2026/04/30/e...

Fantastic, can't wait to see it @zakesmda.bsky.social!

We are so pleased to announce our 2026 Translators Aloud bursary recipient for the BCLT summer school! Bernard Capinpin translates from Filipino into English, and will be taking part in @michelehutchison’s Multilingual Prose workshop. #translatorsaloud #translation #filipino @bcltuea.bsky.social

Harare Review of Books, Issue 1, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/shonatig...

Make plans now to attend an exciting online symposium on May 9 hosted by @citylightsbooks.bsky.social: "(Re)Reading Senghor: Poet-Politician at the Crossroads" featuring the editors of our recent translations of Senghor's work. buff.ly/Ydghl42