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August 31, 2018

Book Excerpt! Virginia Woolf: A Portrait by Viviane Forrester

If you haven’t yet, enter our drawing for a chance to win a copy of this book or any of the other titles we’re featuring this week! The drawing closes today Friday, August 31 at 1:00 pm EDT. “For Woolf...

August 30, 2018

Best of Backlist Short Fiction from the Weatherhead Books on Asia Series: River of Fire and Other Stories and There A Petal Silently Falls

Remember to enter our drawing for a chance to win a copy of this book or any of the other titles we’re featuring this week! “Haunting, painful and affirming, full of illusions and hallucinations while rooted in the graphically physical…. Everything about...

August 29, 2018

Best of Backlist Novels from the Weatherhead Books on Asia Series: A Song of Everlasting Sorrow and A Private Life

Remember to enter our drawing for a chance to win a copy of this book or any of the other titles we’re featuring this week! “Shanghai, with its distinct and mysterious longtang — neighborhoods circumscribed by narrow alleys — is...

August 28, 2018

Book Excerpt! Minae Mizumura and The Fall of Language in the Age of English

Japanese novelist Minae Mizumura’s The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one’s own language in this period of English-language dominance. Publishers Weekly called the book: “An eye-opening call to...

August 27, 2018

Book Giveaway! Women in Translation Month

August is Women in Translation Month–a time in which we celebrate and read works in translation by female authors. In appreciation of our women in translation, this week we are delving into our backlist to feature fiction and nonfiction from...

August 23, 2018

Found Life: A Conversation with Linor Goralik

August is Women in Translation Month–a time in which we celebrate and read works in translation by female authors. In appreciation of our women in translation, this week we’re featuring Found Life: Poems, Stories, Comics, a Play, and an Interview, by Linor...

August 22, 2018

Introducing Found Life

August is Women in Translation Month–a time in which we celebrate and read works in translation by female authors. In appreciation of our women in translation, this week we’re featuring Found Life: Poems, Stories, Comics, a Play, and an Interview, by Linor...

August 20, 2018

Book Giveaway! Found Life:Poems, Stories, Comics, a Play, and an Interview

August is Women in Translation Month–a time in which we celebrate and read works in translation by female authors. In appreciation of our women in translation, this week we’re featuring Found Life: Poems, Stories, Comics, a Play, and an Interview, by...

August 17, 2018

In Commemoration of Sofia Khvoshchinskaya

In honor of Women in Translation Month, this week we’ve been featuring Sofia Khvoshchinskaya’s City Folk and Country Folk, but today, we’re featuring the author herself. In commemoration of this wonderful writer, Nora Seligman Favorov has provided us with the following overview of Khvoshchinskaya’s life. Remember to...

August 16, 2018

Erast Ovcharov Makes Advances Toward Olenka (chapter 14 excerpt)

In honor of Women in Translation Month,  this week we’re featuring Sofia Khvoshchinskaya’s City Folk and Country Folk. Yesterday, you read about a A Nineteenth-Century #MeToo Moment. Today, we present you with an excerpt of chapter 14, in which Erast Ovcharov makes advances toward Olenka, our young female...

August 15, 2018

A Nineteenth-Century #MeToo Moment?

Nora Seligman Favorov

There is a scene in Sofia Khvoshchinskaya’s 1863 novel City Folk and Country Folk where Olenka, the young female protagonist, and Erast Ovcharov, the urban sophisticate who is staying at her mother’s estate for the summer, are both riding in...

August 14, 2018

Introducing Sofia Khvoshchinskaya’s City Folk and Country Folk

In honor of Women in Translation Month,  this week we’re featuring Sofia Khvoshchinskaya’s City Folk and Country Folk. Today we are delighted to present you with an excerpt from the book’s introduction. Remember to enter our drawing for a chance to win a copy of...