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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 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...

June 23, 2020

New Book Tuesday! The Fury Archives, Critique and Praxis, Other Moons and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! New from the Modernist Latitudes series. The Fury Archives Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes Jill Richards In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, radical women’s movements and...

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

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

New Book Tuesday! The Fury Archives, Critique and Praxis, Other Moons and More!