November took me to Nicaragua #TranslationThurs bsky.app/profile/geor...

OTHER WILD this Saturday 11th with Emily Zobel Marshall, 2025 Bookshop Day Ambassador, at Waterstones Leeds. Chaired by Sai Murray, the event explores collection and the lives of errant women&creatures. @emilyzmarshall.bsky.social @inpressbooks.bsky.social Info: www.waterstones.com/events/emily...

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de... forty years of @peepaltreepress.bsky.social

Current read this tough French memoir of childhood rape

‘Marketa Lazarová’ by Vladislav Vančura (1931) At the murky birth of Northern Europe, a showdown between Bohemian brigands draws in German troops. The prose is incredibly vivid, but keeps the spirit of a folktale. The forest warps with the characters once the frost begins to thaw

The doughnuts at a viral Japanese bakery chain are breathy, yeasty, tender, and warm. “It was the dream doughnut I didn’t realize I had always yearned for,” Helen Rosner writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/EII61Q

What an incredible achievement to be recognised alongside some of the finest literature of the year across both fiction and non-fiction. Congratulations also to translator Hildegard Serle and to Europa Editions.

🍆 NEW NINETY-NINE NOVELS EPISODE🍆 This week, the thorny issue of PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT by PHILIP ROTH. Is the novel more than its reputation? Is it really just about onanism? Roth expert Matthew Shipe helps us find out. All the usual places and here: www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/n...

Flicking through a few reviews by Anthony Burgess

My #translationthurs book

The National Telepathy Roque Larraquy Review The National Telepathy by Roque Larraquy, skilfully translated by Frank Wynne, is an extraordinary, disturbing, metaphoric read. A satire of scientific racism; a critique of colonialism and its mindset, the novel questions to what extent so-called…

It's that time of week what have you been reading from around the world? #translationthurs

I think having a head cold was are he main reason I was so down the other day today getting other side of it been a busy few months as well

Was in town forgot my book so decided pop in the library and get one and this jumped out at me how could you not pick this book up with that title know its about a after and real events in world war two

For #GermanLitMonth, a writer who deserves more attention, Gert Hofmann, and his novel, Our Conquest, exploring the end of the second world war through the eyes of a child: 1streading.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/o...

Slowing the blog down a bit to fall back in love with reading

Full of cold at moment but off for four days after today

If you're looking for poetry about Budapest, about post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe—or about illness, dissent, the city as a psychic space—go find a copy of this book.

In March we got the rare chance to sit down with the poet, writer and literary translator George Szirtes in his own home for an interview... We talked about the role of the poet in England and Hungary, translation, and living life at an angle to both languages. And finally, here it is!

@owengood.bsky.social thanks for the follow

www.theguardian.com/wellness/202... getting out of a reading rut

@katyderbyshire.bsky.social are you doing the Meyer translation for Die Projektoren ?

Moby Dick was published on this day in 1851, so today's bank note comes from Nantucket and features a large vignette of whalers in a longboat about to harpoon a spouting sperm whale. Also on the right, note the Hydrostatic Oil Press. Manufacturers and Mechanics Bank, Nantucket, MA, $3, Dec 5, 1843.🗃️

Shortlist Warwick Prize for Women in Translation @womenintranslation.bsky.social And The Walls Became the World All Around by #JohannaEkstrom tr. #SigridRausing A series of handwritten notebooks detailing Ekstrom’s impressions, memories & dreams, as life's clock ticks ominously. wp.me/prWQn-8yn

winstonsdad.blog/2025/11/12/w... on blog this German book about the Ukraine war from Alexander Kluge #translationthurs

What have been you reads recently in translation #translatuonthurs ?

On the blog this gem from Alexander Kluge written in his 90s winstonsdad.blog/2025/11/12/w...

#NovNov #GermanLitMonth @stujallen.bsky.social Readers need patience for a Bernhardian narrative, but fortunately mine lasted until (none the wiser about who dunnit, I got to the end. Klausen (2002), by Andreas Maier, 2010 translation by Kenneth J Northcott anzlitlovers.com/2025/11/11/k...

Our 2025 Holiday Gift Guide is HERE! Whether you’re searching for a cozy romance, a charming children’s book, or the right read for a hard-to-shop-for friend, our gift guide has you covered. Get 15% off when you use code GIFT25 at checkout, now through 11/18.

Just finished just started #translationthurs a Grass I hadn't been aware of that is unusual and Kluge on war is just going be amazing like all his books

What have you been reading from around the world this week #translationthurs

Arrival today is Italian old and new

My memories is of my grandparents reading aunt father reading books all the time

There is a distinct lack of straight male reading role models for young men these days and sad we have a generation avoiding reading

Why Did the Novel-Reading Man Disappear? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/s...

Started this today a change of book I worry about the decline in reading

Little nervous as Amanda is having her stent done tomorrow fingers crossed is goes ok an early start for us

winstonsdad.blog/2025/10/28/t... a look back at my ten favourite reads of @kaggsy59.bsky.social and @stuckinabook.bsky.social club years

Not forgetting our four mystery titles from 1925! 😊✨ The Blue Diamond by Annie Haynes Witness on the Roof by Annie Haynes The Black Cabinet by Patricia Wentworth The Dower House Mystery by Patricia Wentworth #1925Club

One week to go! @kaggsy59.bsky.social

U ever have the flat feeling a sort of inertia hits you I've been that recently the stress of Amanda's heart attack on me but also feeling stuck in general that's been me recently not sure what to do but sure at some point inspiration and desire will return

From the archive for Katherine Mansfield, #BornOnThisDay in 1888, thoughts on THE GARDEN PARTY. There's a beautiful fluidity of emotion in these stories as they move from happiness and gaiety to sadness and loneliness in the blink of an eye #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2020/10/23/t...

The latest @irishtimes.com fiction in translation column by Catherine Taylor is now online for subscribers 👇

Extremely pleased to have a story in Wigleaf.

It has been such a great honour to be one of Krasznahorkai's interpreters into English (since 2008), along with George Szirtes and John Batki. I also have to mention the visionary New Directions and my beyond stellar editor Declan Spring 🧡 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...

9 Books to Add to Your #Halloween TBR @catapultbooks.bsky.social @counterpoint @softskull www.instagram.com/p/DPmcx1riRm...

Weekend reading 1930s America and Victorian Portuguese novella

winstonsdad.blog/2025/10/08/n... the yearly fun Nobel guessing post

@stujallen.bsky.social Late for #TranslationThurs People from Oetimu (2019) by Felix Nesi, translated 2025 by Lara Norgaard: anzlitlovers.com/2025/10/05/p...

winstonsdad.blog/2025/10/04/n... a milestone on the blog this is the 1500th book reviewed a lost gem from Iceland nothing rescued by Astra Sigurdardottir