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I'm still thinking about how we define "good" in terms of literary translation. For the Seagull Books newsletter, I asked a wh...

As translators demand and gain increased recognition, our greater visibility has both pros and cons. It means that while some critics acknow...

Having been thinking a lot about cronyism among critics, I have to start this review with a full disclosure: Selim Özdogan is a friend of mi...

The list of twenty titles in the running for the German Book Prize was announced yesterday. In the past, I've shadowed the prize quite ...

Käthe Kruse has a book out, Lob des Imperfekts . Kunst, Musik und Wohnen im West-Berlin der 1980er Jahre. It's an ebook, actually, abou...

Sabine Scholl schrieb neulich so gut darüber, wie es sich anfühlt, im Literaturbetrieb Außenseiterin zu sein. Ich möchte darauf antworten,...

I have been very busy, translating and parenting as usual but also judging the International Dublin Literary Award . That means reading 147 ...