New blog post at cupblog.org. Q&A: Mistresses of Deception: Female Swindlers in Ming Dynasty China. Bruce Rusk and Christopher Rea. It includes the covers of The Book Of Swindles and More Swindles From the Late Ming.
We're wrapping up National Translation Month with tales of women who mastered deception in Ming Dynasty China. buff.ly/mcgXG6G #NationalTranslationMonth #MingDynasty #FemaleSwindlers #HistoryUnveiled #ReadTheWorld
September 30 is #InternationalTranslationDay! Join us in celebration by reading one of the many wonderful works in translation we put together in this Bookshop reading list for #NationalTranslationMonth: bookshop.org/lists/national-translati...
To celebrate #NationalTranslationMonth, we’ve compiled a list of books in translation in our newest blog post! Use code RUP30 on book purchases published by @bucknellupress.bsky.social for a discount and free US shipping.
To read, shop our catalog, and more: linktr.ee/bucknellupress
#ReadUp on Fiction in Translation. Includes the graphic for Translator Post: Breaking the Hinge How I Learned to Own My Role in Translation Liz Evans Weber. cupblog.org
#ReadUp on Fiction in Translation. Includes the graphic for Q&A: Darryl Sterk on Translating Syaman Rapongan’s Eyes of the Ocean. cupblog.org
#ReadUp on Fiction in Translation. Includes the graphic for Q&A Christopher Peacock on Tsering Döndrup’s The Red Wind Howls. cupblog.org
#ReadUp on Fiction in Translation. Includes the graphic for Author Interview: Illuminating The Running Flame Fang Fang in Conversation with Michael Berry. cupblog.org
Great books deserve a second chance to shine! These posts highlight how talented translators bring global literature to life for English readers. buff.ly/g35WlLS #ReadTheWorld #NationalTranslationMonth #TranslateMonth
In THE WANDERING RADIANCE, Hilde Domin “evokes not only her own experience, but the existential loneliness that is common to all.” —Jean Ward
Read a Green Linden Press poetry collection, translated from German by Mark S. Burrows! #NationalTranslationMonth www.greenlindenpress.com/books/the-wa...
Add Tomaž Šalamun’s OPERA BUFFA to your reading list! The poems in this @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social collection “examine what is tender and terrible in the world.”
Translated from the Slovenian by Matthew Moore #NationalTranslationMonth www.blackocean.org/catalog1/ope...
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s SPIDER-MOTHER is on our reading list for #NationalTranslationMonth!
This volume from Warbler Press, translated by Ben Baer, features “new translations of her key Bengali writings and a superbly informative introduction to her life and work.” warblerpress.com/spider-mother/
Andrea Banjani’s THE BOOK OF HOMES tells the story of a man “and his liberation from the furniture that has followed him through 20 years of moves.”
Read a @deepvellum.bsky.social novel, translated by Elizabeth Harris, this #NationalTranslationMonth! store.deepvellum.org/products/the...
Cover of Italian American Review, Volume 14, Issue 2, Summer 2024 Multi-colored yellow background featuring the art work of Vincent Baldassano—an abstract house design.
It's #NationalTranslationMonth! Read this article by Giulia Pellizzato ( @harvard.edu ) about translated Italian fiction in the U.S. from 1949 to 1972 from Vol. 14, Iss. 2 of Italian American Review. cc: @calandrainstitute.bsky.social
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September is #NationalTranslationMonth!
I'm reading Happy New Years by Maya Arad, translated from Hebrew by Jessica Cohen.
#literarytranslation #worldliterature #womenwriters #EpistolaryNovels #booklovers
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Celebrate National Translation month and save 20% with code NTM at checkout. It includes the covers to Eyes of the Ocean; Elephant Herd; The Red Wind Howls; Twilight of the Saints; Tianjin Cosmopolis; Victimhood Nationalism.
Expand your collection of global reads this National Translation Month with our collection of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry that are now available to English readers. buff.ly/XzfsDJ5 #NationalTranslationMonth #TranslateMonth #ReadTheWorld
Photo of boxed up Sandorf Passage books
September is both #nationaltranslationmonth and @bkbookfest.bsky.social. So here are some translated novels (and a poetry collection) that will be on sale this Sunday at booth #334. Of course, we’ll have more to choose from. So, swing by, say hey, and buy some books!
@thenewpress.bsky.social sent 2 Alain Mabanckou ARCs: great for #NationalTranslationMonth reads, more timely than when I first read them: THE LIGHTS OF POINTE-NOIRE, a memoir of home going; & BLACK MOSES, multiple legends remixed. #Booksky
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@thenewpress.bsky.social sent 2 Alain Mabanckou ARCs: great for #NationalTranslationMonth reads, more timely than when I first read them: THE LIGHTS OF POINTE-NOIRE, a memoir of home going; & BLACK MOSES, multiple legends remixed. #Booksky
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@thenewpress.bsky.social sent 2 Alain Mabanckou ARCs: great for #NationalTranslationMonth reads, more timely than when I first read them: THE LIGHTS OF POINTE-NOIRE, a memoir of home going; & BLACK MOSES, multiple legends remixed. #Booksky
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@thenewpress.bsky.social sent 2 ARCs: Alain Mabanckou novels, great "Shorty September", #NationalTranslationMonth reads, more timely than when I first read them: THE LIGHTS OF POINTE-NOIRE, a memoir of home going; & BLACK MOSES, multiple legends remixed.
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The poems in Malú Urriola’s EXQUISITE CORPSE “dive into the emotional intensity of memory … often morphing into surreal, imaginative leaps.”
An @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social collection translated by Elena Barcia for #NationalTranslationMonth: www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/exqui...
Why does it never get to be
our hands
the ones that rise up,
the ones that proclaim the voice
of disgust…
Read Susana Thénon’s “Advent,” translated by Karen Elizabeth Bishop in @tahomareview.bsky.social this #NationalTranslationMonth: tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/t...
@summitbooks.bsky.social brought SYMPATHY TOWER TOKYO by Japanese Akutagawa-Prize winner RIE QUDAN (and translated by Jesse Kirkwood) this week. It's very timely-so very deep-not very lovable to me, but super-trenchant. #NationalTranslationMonth #Booksky
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@summitbooks.bsky.social brought SYMPATHY TOWER TOKYO by Japanese Akutagawa-Prize winner RIE QUDAN (and translated by Jesse Kirkwood) this week...it's very timely; so very deep; not very lovable to me, but super-trenchant. #NationalTranslationMonth
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@pushkinpress.com brought out two ANTOINE LAURAIN titles this #NationalTranslationMonth: #Booksky
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@pushkinpress.com brought out two ANTOINE LAURAIN titles this #NationalTranslationMonth: #Booksky
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/09/anto...
@summitbooks.bsky.social brought SYMPATHY TOWER TOKYO by Japanese Akutagawa-Prize winner RIE QUDAN (and translated by Jesse Kirkwood) this week...it's very timely; so very deep; not very lovable to me, but super-trenchant. #NationalTranslationMonth
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/09/symp...
@pushkinpress.com brought out two ANTOINE LAURAIN titles this #NationalTranslationMonth:
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Read a @circumferencebooks.com poetry collection (translated by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra) this #NationalTranslationMonth!
In TREASURER OF PIGGY BANKS, Vinod Kumar Shukla “illuminates what is hardest to comprehend with aphoristic yet surreal clarity.” circumferencebooks.com/book/treasur...
“all those cells waiting just to rush / headlong into dying so easily”: Poet Yolanda Castaño explores biological and financial cycles. Translated from Spanish by Samantha Schnee, this is the second poem in our #NationalTranslationMonth collaboration with AAP: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
This Slant Books memoir about growing up in German-occupied Warsaw is an “extended meditation on the nature of war, oppression, and fanatical nationalism.”
Read Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz’s KINDERSZENEN, translated by Charles Kraszewski! #NationalTranslationMonth slantbooks.org/books/kinder...
“A path
Over there, away from sight
Celestial spirits descend upon this Earth…”
Read Sybil's poem “Sabeel: A Path,” translated from the Arabic by Maitha and Maha, in Wellspringwords this #NationalTranslationMonth: www.wellspringwords.love/narratives/s...
In Aurélia Lassaque’s IN SEARCH OF A FACE, the speaker “is driven to the brink of madness by the relentless materiality of absence, age and regret.”
Read White Pine Press poetry translated by Madeleine Campbell for #NationalTranslationMonth: www.whitepine.org/in-search-of...
In this @newvesselpress.bsky.social novel translated from the Dutch by David McKay, Anjet Daanje “immerses us in the psyche of a war-traumatized man who has lost his identity.”
THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER is on our #NationalTranslationMonth reading list: newvesselpress.com/books/the-re...
