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Book Tip of the Month: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
I knew very little of Zora Neale Hurston before coming to this, save that she was a key figure of […]
Book Tip of the Month: Crow College: New and Selected Poems by Emma Lew
This months book tip of the month is bought to you by prize-winning poet and translator Chris Andrews. Readers often […]
Book Tip of the Month: Shyness and Dignity by Dag Solstad
Translator Martin Aitken brings to us the first book tip of 2020 with Dag Solstad’s Shyness and Dignity (transl. Sverre […]
Book Tip of the Month: As the Women Lay Dreaming by Donald S. Murray
Translator, writer, and editor Daniel Hahn has sent us his book tip for this month, Donald S. Murray’s As the […]
Book Tip of the Month: Images and Shadows by Iris Origo
This month Jon Lindsay Miles, the translator of Haroldo Conti’s Southeaster, a beautiful novel of drifters on a boat in […]
Book Tip of the Month: Afropean: Notes from Black Europe by Johny Pitts
Johny Pitts’s Afropean: Notes from Black Europe was hands-down my most compelling bit of pleasure reading this summer. Described as […]
Book Tip of the Month: The Reunion by Fred Uhlman
Last month I was set the challenge of finding a birthday present for someone with exacting taste: ‘a good book […]
Book Tip of the Month: Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls by Peter Riley
[…] who says that language is either normal or poetical? […] One of the many pleasures of Peter Riley’s poetry […]
Book Tip of the Month: Black Car Burning by Helen Mort
In a new monthly feature in our newsletter and on our Ampersand blog, our authors, translators, editors and the rest […]