It's been several months since I posted the top 100 nominated titles from the 100 Best Women in Translation list. At the time, I promise...

I've been thinking about the Nobel award winners for 2018 and 2019 quite a bit for the past few days. It's hard not to; pretty much ...

This post may be a bit more... personal than most. August 31st always seems to sneak up on me. Wasn't there so much more I wanted to d...

For the past almost-two months, readers from around the world have been sending in their nominations and votes for this list: The 100 Best B...

As always, I remain totally stumped when it comes to reviewing poetry. What can I say, other than "I liked this collection!"? The ...

One of the biggest lingering questions facing the women in translation movement has to do with... the world. Literature in translation is a ...

The Baghdad Clock 's cover and marketing is both exactly what it seems like and not quite what it's sold as. With a blurb that seems...

A vlog! They happen, on occasion. In which I ramble about the 100 Best Books by Women in Translation and some plans for the future list! ...

Some of you might remember that I'm quite a fan of Scholastique Mukasonga's writing. In fact, I still cite Cockroaches  as one of my...

I left the previous post on a cliffhanger. The truth is, I wanted a full post that detailed the positive. A lot of good things are happenin...

For a book that's not even 100 pages long, Justine Mintsa's  Awu's Story  has a surprisingly long introduction. Clocking in at...

The 50 Day Countdown (part 3) In my last post , I talked about how I felt the 50 Day Countdown list really showed the breadth of women wr...

I waited a long time to read Flights . Despite having had multiple translations of her books into English prior to Flights , this was the ...

This is just a reminder that the #100BestWIT submission deadline - AUGUST 25TH - is fast approaching! Don't forget to send in up to 10 n...

You know how I often say that I feel "unqualified" to write reviews of certain books? Sometimes that's because a book just isn...

When I posted my WITMonth 50 Day Countdown list the other day , I originally intended to write a little bit more about it. There's so mu...

I can neither say that I liked or disliked Milena Busquets This Too Shall Pass  (translated from Spanish into Hebrew by Yaarit Tauber). It...

Exactly two months ago on June 12th 2019, I launched a new project ahead of WITMonth - the 50-Day Countdown . The list is one of my favorite...

Confession: I did not like Anna Segher's Transit  very much . I didn't loathe it, I just... didn't connect to it. I felt like I ...

The literary canon is dying. It's hard not to feel that there is no longer reason to have a fixed literary canon. In an era in which r...