new books from @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social and @twolinespress.com, a reprint of a book on my tbr for ages and translated stories from Elvira Navarro, loved her book A Working Woman. 📚✨
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I post about queer and translated fiction, small press, manga, and pretty books 📚✨
Revolving Books online always has books/writers I did not know about in the first photo. I also found a copy of The Colorist by Susan Daitch and other used books I recently bought. 📚✨
Before an artist becomes a legend, there are the works that helped shape their voice. Brothers of Japan collects 11 early stories from Taiyo Matsumoto, offering a look at the foundations of his artistic world. Pre-order now: buff.ly/ET4EJKf
book mail from @openletterbooks.bsky.social, the new Translator Triptych featuring three books from Iceland. I highly recommend checking out Open Letter Books catalog 📚✨
New on my blog, I've written about Urszula Honek's bleak but beautiful collection of interlinked stories, WHITE NIGHTS. Translated by Kate Webster, I read this for #WITMonth. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2026/09/07/w...
White Nights – Urszula Honek (tr. Kate Webster)
Urszula Honek’s White Nights is a haunting, beautifully written collection of thirteen interlinked stories about death, isolation, poverty and despair.
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books read in August for Women in Translation month, my two favorite are La Bâtarde by Violette Leduc and The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers, brilliant. The others are gems too, would recommend. I read all of Vagabond, unfortunately the series is unfinished. 📚
some vintage New Directions from Revolving Books online. I had not seen these before and the Stendhal are from 1961 📚✨
books I recently bought, perfect for women in translation month 📚
Got a bunch of Indian modern classics, translated variously from Kannada, Urdu, Tamil and Bengali, with the last originally in English. These are stupidly hard to get hold of in Australia--had to order them from Germany, of all places. (includes the excellent @shreedaisy.bsky.social)
I could not pass up this lot of books by Maurice Blanchot and this rad edition of The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard 📚
Another #witmonth -appropriate old podcast episode finally has a transcript! Post-bubble Japan. The history of socially-conscious Japanese literature. Yu Miri and her novel Tokyo Ueno Station (trans Morgan Giles). readjapaneseliterature.com/Podcast/Epis...
The Sweet Dove Died has turned out to be one of my favorite reads of this year. This was unexpected as I haven’t enjoyed Pym’s other work. I loved the caustic writing, the icy heart at the center, the moments of ‘longing and loathing’ being so intertwined. Both brutal and human. #NYRBWomen25
Now that we've all seen the WICKER trailer, may I also interest you in a brilliant little novella about a bored wife having an affair with a fish/frog monster called Larry who loves avocados?
books read in July, all were terrific and would highly recommend. The first time reading Pym and Quignard and I will definitely read more. Wise Blood and Barthes! 📚✨
used books I found on the Etsy store OldBookSource and Revolving Books online 📚✨
Reread (first read maybe 10 years ago) this Hungarian masterpiece. No little review because I'm saving my words for the translated fiction book group I'm in. But it's fucking great.
Just here to remind you about this amazing title! Makeshift by Sarah Campion asks what it means to find a home in an intolerant world. A fascinating and long-neglected novel, Makeshift is a story of identity, exile, and the search for belonging.
