‘Shades of the Other Shore’ and ‘Ballade Nocturne’ (Review)
It’s been a while, but I’ve finally found a few hours to devote to the other two beautiful Cahiers I received from Daniel Medin at the Center for Writers and Translators at the American University of...
View Article‘The Tilted Cup: Noh Stories’ by Paul Griffiths (Review)
While Bellezza’s Japanese Literature Challenge 8 has been running for almost two months now, thus far I haven’t really been able to contribute much. Today’s post, though, is an attempt to rectify...
View Article‘Angry in Piraeus’ by Maureen Freely (Review)
In addition to reading fiction in translation, I quite enjoy hearing from the people involved in the field, and The Cahiers Series, the collection of beautiful coffee-table works published by Sylph...
View Article‘The Swan Whisperer’ by Marlene Van Niekerk / ‘Translator’s Blues’ by Franco...
One of my resolutions for the blog this year was to post at least once a month on a work that *wasn’t* translated into English (see my annual awards post for more on my own version of the 3% problem…),...
View Article‘To Begin at the Beginning’ by Javier Marías &‘The Story Smuggler’ by Georgi...
It’s always a pleasure to see the latest review copies from The Cahiers Series drop through my letterbox, but the most recent additions to the collection took that emotion up a notch. As well as a...
View Article‘QWERTY Invectives’ by Éric Chevillard (Review)
After reading (and rereading) a number of longish, dense works recently, I felt the need for something a little lighter, and when it comes to short, entertaining works (often in translation), you can’t...
View Article‘Going Where’ by Olga Medvedkova &‘Loss Sings’ by James E. Montgomery (Review)
I usually enjoy the short books from the Cahiers Series (a joint venture between Sylph Editions and the Center for Writers & Translators at the American University of Paris), so I’ve been meaning...
View Article‘A General Practice’ by Anna-Louise Milne &‘Quarry’ by Rachel Cusk (Review)
I recently received copies of the latest additions to the Cahiers Series (a joint venture between Sylph Editions and the Center for Writers & Translators at the American University of Paris), a...
View Article‘Temporale’ by Marina Warner (Review)
Those of you with long memories may recall that I’ve posted a number of times on books from the Cahiers Series (a joint venture between Sylph Editions and the Center for Writers & Translators at...
View Article‘Flight’ by Michael Finke &‘Bone Into Stone’ by Jhumpa Lahiri (Review)
It’s been a while since I’ve posted on any books from the Cahiers Series (a joint venture between Sylph Editions and the Center for Writers & Translators at the American University of Paris), but a...
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