I don't know why I came into The Court Dancer  with both high expectations the sense that I wouldn't like the book at all. True, I...

The annual stats posts have become a WITMonth fixture. While I haven't written stats for every single year since 2014, stats are typical...

Jokha Alharthi's Man Booker International winner  Celestial Bodies  (tr. Marilyn Booth) is an odd and special book, made odder by my o...

It's happened a few times in recent days: Someone will respond - snarkily, at times even cruelly - to a passionate, excited post that ta...

I won't pretend that I didn't warm to Disoriental more slowly than I was expecting. Négar Djavadi's novel (translated from Frenc...

One of the first things I remember thinking when people starting asking about a second year for WITMonth was, "Wow, I hope that someday...

It's the first of August and that means... WITMonth! WITMonth has arrived! Every year brings with it something new and miraculous an...

WITMonth! WITMonth! It's almost WITMonth! There are a few things going on this year... First and foremost, there are some new WITMonth...

Over the past few weeks, I have had decidedly mixed reactions to the release of the Man Booker International Prize shortlist. The award - wh...

One of the biggest questions I ask myself when thinking about WITMonth and the women in translation project at large is whether or not I am ...

I don't think I quite expected to be confronted by my ignorance to such a stark degree while reading The Second Sex , Simone de Beauvoir...

I find myself, once again, at odds with the broader literary community. It's exhausting, isn't it? You must be saying to yourself:...

Dear Elena Ferrante, It's a little odd for me to be writing this post in the form of an open letter. I could, after all, just write a ...

Noa Yedlin's novel בעלת הבית ( House Arrest ) won Israel's top literary prize in 2013. It's a novel that had been largely praise...

I always have mixed feelings about the end of WITMonth. Part of me is thrilled that another successful WITMonth has come and gone, with read...