Tag: Translation
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BLOOD RED by Gabriela Ponce translated by Sarah Booker (BOOK REVIEW)
“I wallow on the bathroom tiles, a red dot in this white universe. My solitude is writhing in a pain I never understood. I think about ... -
ALPHALAND by Cristina Jurado, translated by James Womack, Sue Burke, Monica Louzon, Steve Redwood and Inés Galiano (BOOK REVIEW)
Cristina Jurado – Alphaland (2023, translated by James Womack, Sue Burke, Monica Louzon, Steve Redwood and Inés Galiano) “For him, light has always been something foreign ... -
WALKING PRACTICE by Dolki Min, translated by Victoria Caudle (BOOK REVIEW)
“I wasn’t raised as a life-form of limited imagination. But truthfully, on my home planet, no one could have imagined that there is something that walks ... -
JAWBONE by Mónica Ojeda (BOOK REVIEW)
Mónica Ojeda – Jawbone (2017, translated by Sarah Booker 2021, published in the UK by New Ruins 2022) “Monsters have to be taught how to be ... -
BEAUTIFUL STAR by Yukio Mishima (BOOK REVIEW)
Yukio Mishima – Beautiful Star (1962, translated by Stephen Dodd 2022) “Death now enveloped earthlings in the form of beautiful clouds. The high crimson and violet ... -
The Tale of Princess Fatima, Warrior Woman, The Arabic Epic of Dhat Al-Himma (edited and translated by Melanie Magidow, 2022) BOOK REVIEW
“When Mazlum told her of her uncle’s suggestion, Fatima laughed outright. Then her eyes flashed and she spoke softly. ‘I swear, even if the most powerful ... -
THE CABINET by Un-su Kim (BOOK REVIEW)
Un-su Kim – The Cabinet (2006, translated by Sean Lin Halbert 2021) “This is a story about a new species, one that has been hitherto considered ... -
THE MILL: A COSMOS by Bess Brenck Kalischer (BOOK REVIEW)
Bess Brenck Kalischer – The Mill: A Cosmos (1922, translated by W. C. Bamberger 2021) “The concave mirrors were so oddly dimmed. The big city pierced ... -
NOT BEFORE SUNDOWN by Johanna Sinisalo, translated by Herbert Lomas (BOOK REVIEW)
“’Definition always presupposes its opposite,’ I say to the woman in the camouflaged combat suit. She’s trying to get me to converse, though what I most ... -
BEOWULF: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley (BOOK REVIEW)
So. Here’s the thing about Beowulf. A lot of people have bad high school memories of reading an archaic, basic myth about a dude whose sole ...