‘It’s hard to keep up with Trump’s outrages,’ says Max Boot, the conservative author and historian who sounds the alarm about the GOP in his new release.
W.W. Norton Offers Entire Ebook Catalog to Lending Libraries
W.W. Norton & Company has announced that its entire catalog of trade and professional e-books will be available to readers through lending libraries.
Do We Need So Many Re-translations of Classics?
They’re relatively cheap to do and since they’re always in demand by universities, but for readers, is there such a thing as too many translations of classics?
The Attraction-Repulsion of International Literature
W.W. Norton’s Alane Salierno Mason discusses the challenges of convincing American’s to read foreign literature and American lit by writers with foreign names.
Do American Writers with Foreign Names Suffer Prejudice?
We have 40 million foreign-born Americans. So why don’t we see more of them on the bestseller lists?
Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu…Who Knew?: Words Without Borders’ Surprise Hit
By Chip Rossetti Last fall marked the release of Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East, an anthology of modern Middle Eastern literature in translation that has had a surprising success in the American market. Tablet & Pen represents a fruitful collaboration between the literature-in-translation online magazine Words Without Borders and anthology editor Reza Aslan, author of …
Book Review: Rose Tremain’s Trespass
By Gwendolyn Dawson Beginning with the very first chapter, in which a young girl makes a shocking discovery in a creek while on a school field trip, Trespass overflows with foreboding and suspense. The novel progresses in two alternating story lines. In one, an alcoholic man living in the Cévennes region of southern France is seduced by the money he …
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