This review is one of the hardest I've had to write in a very long time. It's a review tinged with disappointment, discomfort, and u...

According to my Hebrew translation of Simone de Beauvoir's Malentendu à Moscou  (translated into Hebrew by Nir Ratzkovsky), this very sh...

I was about 150 pages into  The Hate U Give  ( THUG ) by Angie Thomas when a thought struck me: How many contemporary YA books had I read wi...

I read Anna Gavalda's French Leave  way back in 2011, having picked up that slim novella at a Border's going-out-of-business sale (a...

I won't lie: This book is creepy, uncomfortable, and I'm not sure I really enjoyed it. Is it good? Yeah, probably. That disturbing, ...

A lot happens in a year. From August to August, we can identify a lot of great titles by women in translation (though not nearly as many as ...

My grandfather - whose second language happens to be Romanian - picked up my copy of Liliana Ursu's  Goldsmith Market  (translated by ...

A colleague of mine saw my copy of Elsa Morante's History: A Novel  (translated from Italian by William Weaver) at work, lifted it, and ...

Hot on the heels of Women's History Month, I find myself wanting to look forward to the summer, to August, and to new ideas for the 4th ...

On this International Women's Day eve, it's wonderful to have some truly good  news on the women in translation front! The newly a...

Will I ever cease to be surprised by the power of such slim books? Dear Diego  is an especially light novella, framed with a softness of p...

I expect most people reading this blog know me from the Women in Translation project, or #WITMonth. Throughout that project, I have argued t...

There is an endless discussion within many progressive communities regarding how to define the movement. Does the term "diverse" e...

I am 25 years old, and I will never meet everyone in this world. A girl grows up in a small town. She is surrounded by family, a communi...

Hello friends. This is a book blog. It's a book blog that focuses predominantly on a specific subset of literature in translation thes...

This is an odd confession and one that makes me slightly uncomfortable, but... I struggle with a lot of single-author short story collection...

The 31st of August means that technically speaking, "Women in Translation Month" - WITMonth 2016 - has come to an end. And oh w...

A cheat post today as we edge closer to the end of WITMonth... Check out the excellent list compiled by @Lillie_Langtry  on Twitter to see ...

WITMonth 2016 is almost over and there will be plenty of discussions to be had later as well, but before we go... a brief thought on genres....

Short story collections are always a bit problematic. There's a huge difference between collections written as single entities, collec...