4 days ago · Of these, Jia Pingwa's Broken Wings, translated by Nicky Harman, caught my eye. Described as a thriller, the novel tells the story of Butterfly, a young woman ...

6 days ago · This is a novel from the acclaimed translator of Olga Tokarczuk's Flights; the eponymous Irena Rey is a Polish literary megastar. This is a novel from a ...

3 days ago · This chapter investigates the experiences of 15 Polish families who opted to settle in rural Ireland after living in various locations, both within Ireland ...

6 days ago · After poems came novels and short stories, her efforts culminating in her three-volume fictional chronicle of the Lodz Ghettto, The Tree of Life (1972,  ...

5 days ago · Migrant workers are needed to do jobs no one else wants, but the migrants themselves are viewed with suspicion and worse; foreign students and the higher ...

2 days ago · If the book has a unifying element, it is the desire to be useful to the translator, Its various theories are only generalisations of translation practices. The ...

5 days ago · Tomasz Rozycki, translated from the Polish by Mira Rosenthal (Archipelago). Poetry. In this philosophical collection that explores doubt—regarding language ...

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5 days ago · Today's book is: Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm (Red Hen Press, 2023), by David Mas Masumoto. In hi…

4 days ago · In this essential collection of his work, the best of his prize-winning poems since 1970 are collected in one place, threaded through with essays that link ...