Translator reviews the winner of the National Book Award for Translated Literature Taiwan Travelogue (臺灣漫遊錄), by Taiwanese author Yáng Shuāng-zǐ is a postcolonial and feminist reimagining of Taiwan’s colonial past....
Pomp and circumstance rule the Académie française, an eminent council of forty emerald-clad French literati (“the Immortals”) cast as lifelong guardians of the sacred language of Corneille and Zola. First...
The Queer Arab Glossary is, first and foremost, an act of presence. In a world that often paints Arab societies with a broad brush of conservatism, this book insists that queerness...