With comparisons to Joyce, Gaddis, Pynchon, Sebald, Bernhard, Beckett, and Kafka, Asymptote Journal dubs SCHATTENFROH “a monument of world literature.” asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/08/1…

Thank you Asymptote Journal — our hard work paid off Matthias Friedrich !!

Also in Asymptote Journal’s August roundup: Andrea Bajani’s “minimalist systems novel,” the ingenious BOOK OF HOMES asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/08/1…

recommendation for Women in Translation month 📚✨

THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER is "an absorbing, expansive work . . . never losing the reader’s attention, it’s a story both of individuals and of war. We’re shown another time, another world . . . This is a book I highly recommend." Tony tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/the…

The Minotaur’s Daughter, the English-language debut of Slovakian poet Eva Luka, unfurls a tapestry of phantasmagoria, animism, resistance, and transgression. Plunge into this immersive, wildly populated series: tinyurl.com/586c7kab

Looking forward to reading this month's WNIT column Asymptote Journal and all books therein. #WomeninTranslationMonth asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/08/1…

Jazmina Barrera’s biography of Elena Garro “also serves as an alternative history of Mexico City; a cry-out for justice; and an homage to the unknowable.” Preorder THE QUEEN OF SWORDS (transl. Christina MacSweeney) from Two Lines Press! #WITMonth catranslation.org/shop/book/quee…

#SneakPeek 👀 Carolina Ebeid's HIDE—a reinvention of visual poetry and personal history charting exile’s impact on memory, identity, and futurity—is out March 3, 2026.⁠ Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/hide-p…

The Loft Marlen Haushofer translated by Amanda Prantera #WITmonth

ARCs! How beautiful they are, Graywolf Press! 🙏💙🐌🐙🦑🦀🪼 graywolfpress.org/books/daughter…

One of my most anticipated titles of the year, without question.

Reading Mandy-Suzanne Wong marvel at mollusks on my way to the recording studio this morning !!

in the New Directions Winter ‘26 catalog, books by women in translation. The catalog is of course stellar ✨📚🔥

If you like your protagonists inhuman, try "Junkshop"—a riveting piece of experimental fiction in which the lives of inanimate objects take center stage. Climb aboard this unforgettable epistemological journey with Urdu writer Mirza Athar Baig: tinyurl.com/3ac6w5b6

Ten titles, ten countries! Read reviews of poetry anthologies featuring testimonies from the genocide in Gaza; a delicate and revelatory Serbian novel parsing lineage and dementia; a Russian master’s memoirs of his infamous literary friends, and more… tinyurl.com/3h467xea

My first reviews for Asymptote Journal are live at "What's New in Translation"! Reviewing work translated from Kyrgyz, Serbian, and Russian this month, I'm extremely honored to be part of this project. Posts about the books to follow. asymptotejournal.com/blog/new-in-tr…

GRACE PERIOD by the wonderful Maria Judite de Carvalho, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa Two Lines Press Some thoughts from me on the novella here (and on Goodreads). Many thanks to Two Lines for the ARC! mandysuzannewong.substack.com/p/grace-period catranslation.org/shop/book/grac…

19 September 2023 Graywolf Press 📦 graywolfpress.org/books/box

For Asymptote Journal's blog, I reviewed THE INVESTIGATOR by Dragan Velikić, translated from the Serbian by Christina Pribichevich-Zorić Istros Books asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/09/1…