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Alex Crayon
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I picked up Carlos Fonseca’s Colonel Lágrimas, translated by Megan McDowell (Restless Books, 2016), because I was immediately struck by the conflict in the title: “colonel tears.”... -
Peter Stamm The Sweet Indifference of the World Trans. Michael Hofman Other Press “PLEASE COME TO Skogskyrkogården tomorro... -
October 6, 2021 |
Denise Duong is a Vietnamese American artist whose artwork appears on the cover of the Autumn 2021 issue of World Literature Today. Her paintings, drawings, and murals tell st... -
February 22, 2021 |
On a visit to an Oklahoma City bookstore, Alex Crayon finds more than books. When I pulled into the snow-covered parking lot of Nappy Roots Books in northeast Oklahoma City, the first thing... -
We love new-translation news. Here, WLT intern Alex Crayon offers four new translations—from Spanish, Korean, French, and Catalan—all releasing in February 2021. Mercedes R... -
October 14, 2020 |
Helene Tursten An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good Soho Crime Trans. Marlaine Delargy I first picked up Swedish writer Helene Tursten’s collection of stories for its title and for its length; I... -
August 10, 2020 |
Richard van Leeuwen is a senior lecturer in Islamic studies at the University of Amsterdam. This year, he won the 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the Arabic Culture in Other Lan... -
July 2, 2020 |
Photo by Ben Hershey / Unsplash John Feinstein, when he wrote The Back Roads to March: The Unsung, Unheralded, and Unknown Heroes of a College Basketball Season (Doubleday, 2020), pro...
