Amazon | Indie bookstore While the focus of Peter Rachleff’s Black Labor in Richmond is, obviously, on black labor, the book crosses race lines to…
A Time for Everything, by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by James Anderson IndieBound | amazon My writeup of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Seasons quartet is posted…
Patti Smith | Woolgathering (NY: New Directions, 2011) | Amazon | Indie bookstore In Woolgathering, Patti Smith (the child Patti) is tucked into bed by…
The Known World, by Edward P. Jones, tells a story so rich and intricate, so visionary, it’s impossible to describe except in the flattest terms. The…
My interview with translator Charlotte Mandell is posted at The Millions (link). Charlotte Mandell translated Compass, by Mathias Enard. The novel was shortlisted for the…
I’m not at all a qualified translator, but trying to translate helps me understand a poem, helps me get into it more completely. I also like going…