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You may recall me making a big song and dance in advance of an event I co-hosted with Slow Travel Berlin . And then it went rather quite aft...

Since the panel asking "Where are the women in translation?" at this spring's London Book Fair, I have been thinking about ho...

It's that time of year again, the day when I realize which German writers are actually Swiss. Nationalities are all nonsense anyway, sur...

Here is a novel written exactly and deliberately the way you’re not supposed to write a novel. And yet, or maybe for ...

Another impressive first novel , this time with a complex structure. And more birds. Are birds as important in other li...

Something has been niggling away at me from Friday's symposium . One of the panels was on "Translators' Status and Visibility...

A teenage narrator shares her recipe for a good time: One best friend One carton milk from the school canteen One bottle cheap brandy O...