A classic of Argentine literature, Antonio Di Benedetto's Zama is available for the first time in English. The novel, about a provincial magistrate of the Spanish crown named Zama, is a riveting ...
Five years ago, I decided, essentially on a whim, to teach myself to translate fiction. Before then, I had neither sought nor avoided translated books, but as part of my — very steep! — learning curve ...
When it comes to African literature, translation has mostly meant translating work from European languages into African ones. Translation from African languages into English has been long overdue. Now ...
A Girl in a Blue Shirt, a novel by Prof. Bensimhon For the first time ever, an Israeli novel has been translated into Moroccan Arabic, and will be sold in Morocco. Prof. Gabriel Bensimhon, a member of ...
Books by Mexican author and professor Cristina Rivera Garza tend to defy expectation and genre. In 2020, Rivera Garza was named a MacArthur Genius Fellow, and in 2024, her book, Liliana's Invincible ...
How strange it is to be human. Plenty of authors have written about this peculiarity (some better than others), but Han Kang turns the well-worn idea of the mind-body disconnect into something fresh ...
The truth doesn't come easy in the latest works of these two household names. Meanwhile, anglophiles now have access to newly ...
Lovers of 19th-century Russian literature have likely never heard the name Avdotya Panaeva, even though she traveled in the same literary circles as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Born in 1819 and raised in ...