While Percival Everett's JAMES is getting the love it deserves, I want to highlight another stellar literary revision: Maryse Condé's, I, TITUBA: BLACK WITCH OF SALEM.

It is to THE CRUCIBLE and THE SCARLET LETTER what JAMES is to HUCK FINN. Condé shares Everett's wicked wit, too

very cool to see Jenny Erpenbeck's KAIROS on the Booker shortlist!

if you find yourself wanting to read a couple thousand words on love, historical discontinuity, the generations of the GDR, and S&M in her work, do please consider clicking on mine >>>

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Feminist Themes: Ten Favourite Books readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2024/04/11/fem…

For #translationthurs

Not a River by #SelvaAlmada tr. Annie McDermott edited Fionn Petch published Charco Press

Almada’s paragraphs are like brushstrokes on a canvas, each one contributes to the story & is necessary in order to see beyond it.
#ArgentinianLit
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Terrific book post.
I'm thrilled to have an advance copy of Olga Tokarczuk's The Empusium in a translation by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, due from Fitzcarraldo Editions in September.
Also very happy to have a superb-looking collection of translations commissioned by The White Review

So many people have recommended this novel over the years. I finally read it for the oddest of reasons (I'm interested in books having to do with the Soviet fur trade), and I wonder who else has thoughts on this out there. Yelena Furman, have you read?

Four books I’m looking forward to:

Ghost Mountain Mumblin' Deaf Ro Bluemoose Books

All Fours Miranda July

You Are Here David Nicholls

Mammoth by Eva Baltasar (trns Julia Sanches) And Other Stories

Please feel free to share yours ❤️👇

#books #booklover #WritingCommunity

Four books I'm looking forward to:

The Singularity - Dino Buzzati (tr Anne Milano Appel)

If Only - Vigdis Hjorth (tr Charlotte Barslund)

The Thinking-About-Gladys Machine - Mario Levero (tr Annie McDermott & Kit Schluter)

Fragments of Paradise - Jean Giono (tr Paul Eprile)

New on my blog, I've written about ten excellent books strong on feminist themes. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2024/04/11/fem…

NYRB Classics Astra House Serpent's Tail Faber Books

I'm nearly finished this novel in verse around the Sami peoplein Sweden #translationthurs

A great list of books to get stuck into for #translationthurs

'Chikako of course became his mother’s ally – indeed a too hard-working ally. She prowled after his father, she frequently went to threaten Mrs Ota. All her own latent jealousy seemed to explode.' #TranslationThurs

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Today’s #translationthurs review: Marie Ndiaye’s Vengeance is Mine, a puzzling omission from the Booker International longlist for some of the shadow panel. lizzysiddal2.wordpress.com/2024/03/20/ven…

666 pp, & typeset in 10 pt too! I wonder if KOK’s editor ever says to him “Jon Fosse’s last book was 48 pp - you should try it sometime Karl!”?

Shortlisted for the #BookerPrize in 2004, David Mitchell’s ‘Russian doll’ epic remains one of the most original, unusual and polarising works in the Booker Library.

As it celebrates its 20th anniversary, here’s our guide to Cloud Atlas⤵️
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Congratulations to Madhu Sriwastav for winning the Muse India Translation Award! Also happy to share that 'Stories of the True' won a jury commendation alongside Valli, Telugu: The Best Stories of Our Times, and The Puppet's Tale.

Who’s going to the The White Review launch TANK tomorrow?
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Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion by Agnes Arnold-Forster review – no place like home theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

thank you Frances Evangelista for this lovely book mail! ✨📚