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Maxim Biller, eh? He comes across as a bit of a one, a bit of a man-about-my-part-of-town. I don't watch TV shows about literature becau...

Here is something like a translation memoir, the story of Mireille Gansel’s multiple and changing relationships ...

PAULA is a strange, disturbing book. It refuses to sit firmly in any one category. In many ways, it’s a memoir. ...

Hello there! Just to let you know, I've updated my list of original German hardcover Belletristik (fiction, poetry, essays, and I th...

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...