The Black Sheep Dances

Translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar The fact is that I’m an inconsistent narrator…I’m too interested in incidental consideration...

Chad Post and Open Letter released the longlist for the Best Translated Book Awards. Since many are from the Eastern European and Russian re...

Two great books from Algonquin Books are up for grabs!  Thanks to their generosity, an extra copy of West of Here by Jonathan Evison, one...

...first published in the February 2012 issue of Gently Read Literature at http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/grl_feb How the...

"...the return from war was surely worse than the leaving." This is the book I completed for the Australian Literature Mont...

From the LA Times Jacket Copy blog at http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2012/01/national-book-critics-circle-announce-awards-finali...

Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett I've heard his name over and over, but this was the first Nesbo title I've read.  P...

"I had to search for my voice.  It was hiding." Yes, memoir.  It's important to note that because reading this feels much li...

Translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz At a pub before evening mass, Heinrich Boll observes a shrewish woman harassing and threateni...

On the Millions website ( http://www.themillions.com/ ), you can find all sorts of book-related discussions and reviews.  The following link...

Sort of the coolest thing online, IMHO... http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SKVcQnyEIT8   This was on Jason Boog...

"Where kisses are given and kisses received, the charted course of coffee and the smell of jasmine outside sweet as gold." ...

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-holland-20120106,0,246046,full.column A British poet makes an excellent point about the pervasive ...

If you haven't signed up for the continuing Eastern European/Russian Reading Challenge for 2012 here, or the amazingly ignored 2012 Medi...

The title alone tells me that I may be too old for this by about a decade, but I jumped into it eagerly.  And discovered I'm a lot dumbe...

This is actually the second time recently that I've read a fiction novel written by someone I'd only known as a poet, and this depar...

I've raved about Islandport Press before, and fair warning, I'm going to do it again.  I found them a few years ago when a now-defun...

Three Percent - Open Letter is the  face of  translated literature right now, and as a nonprofit publisher, they could use some $$$$.  When ...

It's just the first week in December, but everyone's putting up their "best-of" posts so I guess I had better get busy! ...

Remember Dover Publications?  They run anywhere from $1.50 to $4.00 for a paperback, and I remember depending on them in high school for Eng...

Due to popular demand, 2012 will continue the Eastern European Reading Challenge from 2011.  We've ended up with 72 participants in 22 n...

This year's Eastern European Reading Challenge hasn't yet ended, but it's time to think of next year's reading challenge.  I...