Asia in 2023: Round-up of “Best Books” lists
How, as we ask every year, did Asia fare in the “Best Books” lists of 2023? A bit better than 2022, possibly. As before, this list takes a broad view of what constitutes an “Asian” book.
Women in translation month: August 2023 (Updated)
A compilation of reviews in the past twelve months for Women in Translation month (August 2023), including non-fiction and poetry and well as novels and short stories. These list not just women authors who have been translated, but also women who are translators.
2022 in Translation: Central and West Asia, European languages
A 2022 round-up of reviews of works in translation from Arabic, Turkish, Farsi, Dari, Pashto, Kazakh, Russian, French and Spanish.
2022: The Year in Translation from South and Southeast Asia
A round-up of reviews of fiction and short story collections in translation from Vietnamese, Bahasa Indonesia and eight different South Asian languages, classical and modern.
2022: The Year in Translation from Korean
A round-up of reviews of works in translation from Korean, including fiction, story collections, poetry and non-fiction. Click on the title for the review.
2022: The Year in Translation from Japanese
A round-up of reviews of works in translation from Japanese, including fiction, story collections, poetry and non-fiction.
2022: The Year in Translation from Chinese
A round-up of reviews of works in translation from Chinese, including fiction, story collections, poetry, classics and essays.
2022: Highlights of a year in podcasts
Another bumper year of podcasts. Here is a selection of a fifteen highlights. Click on the speaker to hear the podcast … or download (and subscribe!) from your favorite podcast app.
50 Highlights from 2022
2022 seems to have a been a good year for translations: fully one-half of this year’s (as always, subjective) list of books we thought worthy of particular mention were in translation in languages from Persian and Turkish to Bahasa Indonesia and Korean. The balance is shared between English fiction, poetry and non-fiction: memoir, history and…
2022: Round-up of “Best Books” lists [updated]
How, as we ask every year, did Asia fare in the “Best Books” lists of 2022?
Women in translation month: August 2022 (Updated)
A compilation of reviews in the past twelve months for Women in Translation month (August 2022): by author, translator and language, including non-fiction and poetry and well as novels and short stories.
Interview with Magnus Marsden, author of “Beyond Silk Roads: Trade, Mobility and Geopolitics Across Eurasia”
When the Taliban took over Kabul in the summer of 2021, I—like many people around the world—kept asking such questions as: How did it all come about? What do we know about Afghanistan other than from a geopolitically inflected perspective mostly dominated by the US interests?
2021: The Year in Translation from European and Middle Eastern Languages
S everal translations from French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Russian, both fiction and non-fiction had links with Asia. Several classics from Arabic and Farsi appeared in translation, as did a children’s picture book, a contemporary Turkish novel and a translation of Hebrew poetry by an ethnically Vietnamese Israeli poet.
2021: The Year in Translation from Chinese
A round-up of reviews of works in translation from Chinese, including fiction, story collections, poetry, biographies, classics and philosophy.
2021: The Year in Translation from Japanese
A round-up of reviews of works in translation from Japanese, including fiction and non-fiction, novels, story collections and children’s books.
