Category: Women in Translation

August 20, 2020

Book Excerpt! “Out of the Laughing Woods,” by Vo Thi Hao

“Long awaited in English, these stories are beautiful, nuanced translations from the Vietnamese side of the America-Vietnam War. One of the best collections I have read from postwar Vietnam, the stories illuminate the country’s darkest period with humor, shock, and...

August 18, 2020

Quan Manh Ha on Other Moons

“Unlike much of the large body of fiction from American writers that deals with what the Vietnamese call the “American War,” these stories, most of which are set in rural areas of the country and feature humble characters, focus less...

August 13, 2020

Book Excerpt! Social Appearances: A Philosophy of Display and Prestige, by Barbara Carnevali

“Barbara Carnevali’s concept of ‘social aesthetics’ is tremendously powerful, and explains a lot of otherwise baffling phenomena. Carnevali makes me think that the rise of Orban and Trump and the Brexit movement is better understood as a matter of social...

August 11, 2020

Zakiya Hanafi on Translating Works of Philosophy

“This is a powerful and paradigm-shifting aesthetics of society, by a great philosophical talent.” ~Simon Critchley, author of Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us It’s the second week of Women in Translation Month! This week’s #WITMONTH feature comes to us from...

August 6, 2020

Taking the Risk to Translate as Our Intelligence Morphs

By Carolyn Shread

“Malabou, with her characteristic clarity and insight, radically redraws the lines between humans and machines, brains and computers. Morphing Intelligence is a major achievement and not to be missed.” ~Adrian Johnston, author of A New German Idealism: Hegel, Žižek, and...

August 4, 2020

Online Teaching and Collective Intelligence: The Poison or the Cure?

By Catherine Malabou

“In this remarkable book, Catherine Malabou focuses on the transformations of ‘intelligence’ as it moves from genetics to epigenetics to automatism. Historically grounded, philosophically astute, and engagingly written, this book is highly recommended for anyone interested in intelligence—artificial and natural—and...

August 1, 2020

Women in Translation Month 2020! A Celebration of Philosophy and Literature

Welcome to Women in Translation Month 2020! WITMonth was launched six years ago when blogger and scholar Meytal Tadzinkski noticed that works by women authors made up less than 30% of the books translated into English. Since then, WITMonth has...

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...

August 23, 2019

Weekend Reading List: Sinophone Fiction in Translation

Week three of Women in Translation month is coming to a close, but don’t fret. We’ve got a list to keep you reading through the weekend. China’s literary tradition includes many engaging works from contemporary female writers. Here a few...