Category: Themed Month

September 19, 2019

Mark Teeuwen and Kate Wildman Nakai on Lust, Commerce, and Corruption

“What better way to explore the riches of Japanese society before its “opening” to the West than through this masterful translation of one of the most colorful social commentaries of the time? Student and scholar alike will treasure this volume.”...

September 19, 2019

Q&A: Olivier Wierviorka on The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940-1945

“Olivier Wieviorka treats the resistance in Western Europe as a multinational coalition. Anglo-Americans supplied arms and funding to resistance groups on the continent, and Resistance movements in turn aided in the Allied war effort. It was part tug-of-war, résistants striving to maintain...

September 18, 2019

Dominique Kalifa on the Translation of Vice, Crime, and Poverty

“Dominique Kalifa is one of the best French cultural historians of his generation and a worthy successor to Alain Corbin at the Sorbonne. Vice, Crime, and Poverty examines the urban ‘underworld,’ not in the twentieth-century sense of organized crime but as an...

September 18, 2019

Thomas Hansen on Translating Ernst Jünger

“Ernst Jünger’s record of German-occupied Paris and the battlefields of the Caucasus is a treasure trove for readers interested in the history of the Second World War. Even more, though, it is a literary accomplishment of the first order, a...

September 16, 2019

Book Giveaway! Translations About WWII and its Aftermath

World War II is a shared human history told through many languages and perspectives. Our works in translation can provide a more complete picture of this catastrophic period that gripped the world for years. This week, we’ll begin with a...

September 13, 2019

Weekend Reading List: Theory and Philosophy in Translation

To continue our immersion into National Translation Month, we’ve compiled a weekend reading list of translated philosophical books for you to expand your mind’s eye beyond language barriers and borders. •  •  •  •  •  • From the Translations from...

September 12, 2019

Book Excerpt! The Book of Lord Shang, by Shang Yang (introduction) and edited and translated by Yuri Pines

“This thorough study and complete translation of The Book of Lord Shang is a major achievement. It will open many avenues for research into early political thought, a long neglected core topic of early Chinese philosophy.” Carine Defoort, coeditor, The...

September 11, 2019

Yuri Pines on Translating The Book of Lord Shang: Apologetics of State Power in Early China

“No one in the world is more qualified than Yuri Pines to present this new translation of the infamous The Book of Lord Shang, which has both fascinated and repelled readers throughout Chinese history. Accompanied by a superbly informed study...

August 30, 2019

Weekend Reading List: Russian Literature in Translation

Women In Translation Month is winding down to a close, but you can still expand your literary horizons to include more works of Russian Literature authored by women. Our list below is split into two parts, first up is contemporary works of...

August 29, 2019

Book Excerpts! KLOTSVOG and THE MAN WHO COULDN’T DIE

 “Since its launch, the series has already enhanced the scope of Russian literary texts available in English, and it promises significantly more to come, with planned titles ranging from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, by both new and established translators.” ~Katherine Bowers, Translation and...

August 28, 2019

Q&A: Marian Schwartz on The Man Who Couldn’t Die

“Darkly sardonic . . . . oddly timely, for there are all sorts of understated hints about voter fraud, graft, payoffs, and the endless promises of politicians who have no intention of keeping them. It is also deftly constructed, portraying...

August 27, 2019

Why A Novel About Post-War Trauma—Filled With Difficult Personalities—Makes a Great Beach Read

“Klotsvog is a story of everyday darkness told by the ultimate unreliable narrator… As Maya vibrates on a frequency between ruthless self-determination and charming narcissism, Klotsvog infects its audience with a compulsion to determine which dominates.” ~Foreword Reviews August is...