REVIEWS
Clarice Lispector’s Near to the Wild Heart is reviewed at 3 Percent: http://ow.ly/cgucx
Review of Levé’s Autoportrait, trans Lorin Stein. “These sentences represent their author, but are not the real thing” http://ow.ly/cgw2E
A Complete Review of An Unending Landscape by Toomas Vint: http://ow.ly/cgxsa
More Complete Review fun with House of the Fortunate Buddhas by João Ubaldo Ribeiro: http://ow.ly/cgxLi
And a review on Krasznahorkai’s Satantango, which does indeed sound “profound and globally-relevant” (and amazing): http://ow.ly/ckd0N
PUBLISHING NEWS
The July issue of Asymptote is but a click away: http://ow.ly/cmpjq
The search for the next truly mass-market author in India is on! http://ow.ly/cgwun
A nice look at Peirene Press from The Economist: http://ow.ly/clasj
Fear not, Penguin Metro Reads won’t weigh you down with complicated stories… http://ow.ly/cgxe7
On immorality and censorship in contemporary Hausa literature: http://ow.ly/cgyBH
The Guardian wonders out loud why New York’s literary crowd is suddenly in thrall to Hungarian fiction:http://ow.ly/claBN
World Literature Today has launched its own blog. Yay! http://ow.ly/cmqbz
CONFERENCES
‘Reaching the World’ a summit for authors and literary translators in Asia and the Pacific, runs in Bangkok in November http://ow.ly/cj8c9
THOUGHTS ON TRANSLATION
One student’s thoughts on geekery, pseudotranslation, and the never-ending quest for knowledge:http://ow.ly/ck5D7
A closer look at Margaret Jull Costa’s work with Jose Saramago
How the translator mirrors and complements the creative writer (not to mention the power struggles with the editor!): http://ow.ly/ck8cj
The must-read post on editing and dumbing down continues at Three Percent with a link to this conversation:http://ow.ly/ckbp9
A gigantic interview with Margaret Jull Costa in The White Review: http://ow.ly/claxS
“When you’re translating, you try to preserve the sheen, the paleness of those leaves.” Brodsky on the Art of Poetry. http://ow.ly/cmqZg
Is the struggle of literary translation akin to cutting off one’s hand and attempting to write with the other? http://ow.ly/cmqCF
Searching for clues when translating “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Galactic Empire”: http://ow.ly/cmpGS
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