Adirondack Council’s 5 Books to Read this Winter
The Adirondack Council recommends 5 books to read this winter including Beaver River Country by Edward Pitts and Rural Indigenousness: A History of Iroquoian and Algonquian Peoples of the Adirondacks by Melissa Otis. See the full the list of recommendations here.
Alessandro Columbu discusses Sour Grapes on Arablit
“Finding the Music and Rhythm of Zakaria Tamer in English”: A Conversation with Alessandro Columbu on Arablit.
Alessandro Columbu in Shelf Awareness
Shelf Awareness interviewed Alessandro Columbu, translator of Zakaria Tamer’s short story collection Sour Grapes, for their “Reading with” series.
Alexander Elinson Q&A with Book Culture
Book Culture featured a Q&A with Alexander Elinson, translator of Hot Maroc by Yassin Adnan. “Hot Maroc is very much about Morocco, its linguistic diversity, the messy political scene there, and how young people are defining a new Moroccan identity.”
Anjili Babbar in The Irish Times
Anjili Babbar, author of Finders: Justice, Faith, and Identity in Irish Crime Fiction, published her essay “Saints and Sinners in Irish Crime Fiction” in The Irish Times.
Asymptote’s Translation Tuesday features Waiting for the Past
Read an excerpt of Hadiya Hussein’s novel Waiting for the Past, translated by Barbara Romanine, on Asymptote’s Translation Tuesday feature.
Breaking Broken English wins the 2020 CLA Book Award
Michelle Hartman received the 2020 College Language Association Book Award for Creative Scholarship for Breaking Broken English: Black-Arab Literary Solidarities and the Politics of Language.
Brian O’Hare profiled on Shoutout LA
Brian O’Hare, winner of the 2021 Veterans Writing Award and author of the Surrender: Stories is featured in Shoutout LA.
Claudia Liebelt on New Books Network
SUP author Claudia Liebelt was a guest on the New Books Network podcast series to discuss her new book Istanbul Appearances: Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities in Urban Turkey.