The 2019 Man Booker International Prize Winner is Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi, translated from Arabic by Marilyn Booth. The £50,000 prize, which celebrates the finest works of translated...
Rebecca Solnit gives the classic and rather dated tale of Cinderella an empowered, nuanced update. Brainpickings takes a look at Cinderella Liberator, Solnit’s version of the...
Every tale ever told depends in some way on isolation. No matter whether a novel is set in a hectic city or a pastoral village or...
Marie Kondo fans: check it out. Kondo will be publishing a picture book this fall called Kiki and Jax, to be illustrated by Geisel Honor–winning author/illustrator Salina Yoon....
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In the 1970s in Jamaica, soundsystems would clash using vocalists performing over instrumental rhythms on systems built from the ground up, using an ingenious hodgepodge of...
“There and There and There and There” by Alexander Lumans All the quality blankets: gone. They hadn’t vanished in some magical boom of smoke; everyone from...
It is estimated that only 3 percent of books sold in the U.S. are works in translation. The question is why don’t Americans read more translated...
Novel Gazing is Electric Literature’s personal essay series about the way reading shapes our lives. This time, we asked: What’s a book that changed your mind? My older...
As someone who’s been reading historical romance for nearly half my life, it’s true that many of them blur into each other. You know what I...
