Wondering what's new in the world of literary translation this month? From a Hungarian novel about a bitter woman stuck in the past to a Colombian tale about a parent's infidelity to a German popular science book about bacteria, we have you covered! bit.ly/3Il2mWM

I really enjoyed reading and thinking about Pilar Quintana’s ABYSS (tr. Lisa Dillman) for Asymptote Journal’s “What’s New in Translation” roundup this month 🌱🪴Read my review here: asymptotejournal.com/blog/2023/02/1…

read my review of ABYSS! ⤵️

Book mail desde la CDMX!!!

Cool feature on US-Mexico border bookstores by Jessica Powers in the latest WorldLiteratureToday. (Hi, Literarity Book Shop!)

We’re ecstatic to share this call for submissions to Undocupoetics: An Introduction, a forthcoming anthology of poetry & poetics, featuring work by poets currently & formerly undocumented in the US. 🌻 Submit & please share! Deadline 4/30. More details: tinyurl.com/2xdt5krm

Next in our animal-themed lineup, Mexican author Yolanda González presents the gift of seeing the world through a pod of resilient whales as they swim through seas made treacherous by us. Moving and lyrical, “Song of the Whale Road” is a call to action: bit.ly/41uQcRR

We're celebrating these books in translation this week as part of the #ReadtheWorld bookfair! Translation is so important in sharing stories authentically and connecting across languages and cultures. Discover these translated titles and many more at leeandlow.com.

Book people! Let’s help bring a new indie bookstore to life in Brooklyn! Lofty Pigeon Books is one week from their fundraising deadline: kickstarter.com/projects/lofty…

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Feliz cumpleaños a la reina 👑✍️

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August is #WomeninTranslation Month (#WITMonth)!📚 We're proud to have so many incredible women translators work on our titles. The ability to translate stories into other languages from around the world is a kind of magic that always leaves us in awe.✨

"Everything there is to admire in Barrera’s essays can be found, slightly transformed, in this first novel." Cecilia Weddell reviews CROSS-STITCH by Jazmina Barrera, tr. from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney (Two Lines Press): full-stop.net/2023/11/20/rev….

Texts, textiles, writing, embroidering, healing, protesting—read all about it 🪡 (I reviewed Jazmina Barrera’s novel CROSS-STITCH, translated by Christina MacSweeney, for Full Stop: full-stop.net/2023/11/20/rev…)

My review of Hebe Uhart’s fun and attentive A QUESTION OF BELONGING (tr. Anna Vilner for Archipelago Books) is in WorldLiteratureToday’s July issue, in print where books are sold and online here: worldliteraturetoday.org/2024/july/ques… 🎇

“Uhart was a great noticer: of language, of people, of animals, and of places.” Cecilia Weddell reviews a selection of Hebe Uhart’s crónicas, a form Juan Villoro once called “the platypus of prose.” worldliteraturetoday.org/2024/july/ques…

August is #WITMonth, and we’re kicking off the celebrations with 6 reviews of recent books by women, translated into English, from our July issue. For the month of August, these 6 reviews are available to all to read free of charge! worldliteraturetoday.org/book-review/20…