Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including As If She Had a Say by Jennifer Fliss and So to Speak by Terrance Hayes.
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Notes on Irreverent Translation
The author of Mistaken for an Empire: A Memoir in Tongues offers an approach to critically engaging with a colonialist literary canon.
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante and Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity by Leah Myers.
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Welcome Me to the Kingdom by Mai Nardone and Feast by Ina Cariño.
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshananthan and Decade of the Brain by Janine Joseph.
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Extinction Theory by Kien Lam and Liberation Day by George Saunders.
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The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books including The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li and Togetherness by Wo Chan.
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A Fertile Contamination: Considering Translations Among the Year’s Best Short Stories
The editor of The Best Short Stories 2022: The O. Henry Prize Winners sees translation as a way of putting a language back in movement by allowing the currents of different languages to mix and blend.
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books including The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays by CJ Hauser and Gods of Want by K-Ming Chang.
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Open Letter’s Translator Triptych
By presenting translations in trios, a new initiative from Open Letter Books puts international literature in context and celebrates the role of translator as curator.
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