Ampersand Blog and News

Eva Baltasar on suicide, sexuality and poetry

We recently caught up with bestselling Catalan author Eva Baltasar to talk about her novel Permafrost (trans. Julia Sanches), a […]

Bookshop of the Month: City Books

Our September bookshop of the month is City Books, in Brighton and Hove! City Books in the Brunswick area of […]

Bookshop of the Month: Housing Works Bookstore Cafe

The booksellers at Housing Works Bookstore and Cafe, New York have renovated their space and are preparing right now for […]

One Lange leads to another: on finding and translating Norah Lange’s People in the Room

When I was doing graduate work in Hispanic Studies, I met and became friends with a writer whose name was […]

Bookshop of the Month: Powell’s Books

Our publisher Stefan Tobler was recently at Book Expo America (to give you a sense of the madness, here’s Lithub’s […]

February Book of the Month

Our UK publicist Nicky has been taking part in English PEN’s Translated Fiction Book Club (curious? info here). The group […]

Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel​ on​ Why we cannot ignore the influence of the modest bamboo

This piece about literature and languages from faraway places by one of Equatorial Guinea’s rare writer’s, Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, for PEN Atlas has been […]

BREAKING NEWS: Equatorial Guinea’s most important living writer Juan Tomás Avila Laurel, author of BY NIGHT THE MOUNTAIN BURNS, has […]

“A writer who not only hasn’t been published in English before, but doesn’t have friends in the Anglophone literary world […]