Publishing

The Conversation Continues: An Interview with Alison Anderson and David Shook on Women in Translation

September 21, 2016 | Melissa Weiss

Alison Anderson and David Shook. Shook photo by Travis Elborough Three years ago, in a post published on Words Without Borders, Alison Anderson asked, “Where Are the Women in Translation?” T...
NEA Literary Translation Fellowship recipients, Cuba’s thriving sci-fi, and more

August 26, 2016 | WLT

Photo by Syd Wachs/Unsplash News, Reviews, and Interviews The September issue of WLT is here! Get your print or digital copy, or read the entire issue on the website for only $1.25 a month....
The global phenomenon of Nordic noir, digital reading fatigue, and more

June 24, 2016 | WLT

News, Reviews, and Interviews Translator Deborah Smith describes how publishing is an industry but translation is a community. Filmmaker Cordula Kablitz-Post has been awarded the NDR Young Talent P...
Chernobyl’s literary legacy, Charlotte Brontë’s 200th birthday, and more

April 28, 2016 | WLT

Portrait of Charlotte Brontë. Painted by Evert A. Duyckinick, based on a drawing by George Richmond News, Reviews, and Interviews In this interview with Saikat Majmudar, he discusses his new novel...
Declining book sales in Japan, year-end reading from 50 publishers, and more

December 19, 2014 | Kaitlin Hawkins

News, Reviews, and Interviews Libyan poet and translator Khaled Mattawa was recently announced as one of the MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant recipients, and in an interview with NPR...
Coming in the January Issue of WLT

December 11, 2014 | The Editors of WLT

A cover feature on 2014 Neustadt Prize winner Mia Couto (Mozambique) and A special section on flash nonfiction featuring Brian Doyle, Josey Foo, Vikram Kapur, Lia Purpura, and Dmitry Samarov pl...
Stories Beyond the Binding: A Conversation with E-book Publisher EJ Van Lanen

June 17, 2014 | Michelle Johnson

EJ Van Lanen. Photo by Anthony Schuber. Which is better, print or online? Which is more helpful to the cause of advancing translated literature, starting a publishing company or...
Subjectivity in translation, open your own publishing house, and more

April 18, 2014 | Kaitlin Hawkins

The newly released translation of Yuri Mamleyev's The Sublimes can be ordered with a 3D printed nylon doll. T. S. Eliot once described the month of April as the “cruellest month,” but we can...
Translating saudade, a downstairs renaissance, and more

March 7, 2014 | Kaitlin Hawkins

While you’re browsing through this week’s set of lit links, we would really appreciate your help. We are currently in the running for ASME’s Best Cover Contest and need votes to win! All you have to d...
Bringing a Moldovan Writer’s World of the Absurd to English Readers

February 18, 2014 | Michelle Johnson

A Conversation with Ross Ufberg Today is the release date for The Good Life Elsewhere, Vladimir Lorchenkov’s scathing satire from Moldova. Born and currently living in Moldova, Lorchenkov is...
Writing Diwali for Children: A Conversation with Sana Sood

October 30, 2013 | Janny Gandhi

Sana Sood is an Indian American woman living in Washington, D.C. Growing up in India, Sood has always been very close to her culture and to its religious holidays. In order to expose her baby boy...