This post is a long time coming. It is also an extremely difficult one to write, but here we are. I have long prided my independence as a bo...

No, women did not begin writing in 1950. No, women writers in translation didn't only come into existence in the early 2000s. No, women ...

Those of you who have followed this blog for many years know that I'm a scientist as well as being an avid book lover. So it should come...

I sometimes grow nervous over the books I choose to read. In my desire to read writers from across the world, there is always the risk that ...

I am precisely halfway through Nina Bouraoui's Tomboy  (translated from French by Marjorie Attignol Salvodon and Jehanne-Marie Gavarini)...

No One Writes Back  is one of the ultimate WITMonth books. Why? I purchased it during the first ever WITMonth - August 2014, way way back in...

It occurred to me at some point in late 2020 - just around the same time that I was formulating the idea behind what would become the DailyW...

My poetry reviews always contain the same disclaimer: I am not qualified to review poetry. I'm not, truly! When I read poetry, the thing...

A couple of weeks ago, a colleague of mine in the lab gaped a little when I told her about this project and WITMonth. It's something tha...

This will be a musing sort of blog post. One of my great struggles over the years has been explaining to people what the women in translatio...

After years of trying to get this off the ground, the Women in Translation - womenintranslation.org - is now live. This has been an extraor...

For those of the us in the northern hemisphere, June brings with it not only warm winds, but the promise of a hot summer. And the promise of...

More musings: Anything I'm able to write up for my huge new project ( #DailyWIT ) is going to be biased because of what I'm able to ...

This is not a review. These are, in fact, extremely scattered thoughts following a rather disjointed and confused reading experience, that t...

I occasionally like making lists. Not necessarily the hard work behind it, but the way a list looks when it's done. I like the way lists...

Longtime readers of this blog will know that disappointment is not a rare feeling around these parts. I am frequently disappointed by popula...

When I told the audience at the inaugural "Translating Women" conference in London last year that I am "just a reader",...

My frustration with "Best of Books of [x]" lists is not new. In fact, it's one of few topics from my early days of blogging th...

While it may be an odd statement to make on a dedicated book blog and as a person whose personality is often associated with books, I have t...

Over the past two days, numerous Twitter accounts, authors, academics, and educators have joined a fairly wide-reaching debate as to the mer...