Translator & Book Lover. Also at https://xitter.cf/t.co/YJWbsiMR9u
Madrid, Spain
Joined August 2011
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“Alnaas leaves us with an urgent question: what would it mean to build a society where care does not become control?”
In @LAReviewofBooks, Amany Alsiefy reviews Mohammed Alnaas’s newly translated novel, “Bread on Uncle Milad’s Table” - lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
“Updegraff’s translation handles the intricacies of the text well, using variations of English words to render the hostess’s language”
In @ReadinginTrans, Anna Wenzel reviews Teresa Präauer’s newly translated novel, “Cooking in the Wrong Century” - readingintranslation.com/202…
“Like countless stories before it, his tale tries to answer that stupid and beautiful question: What is love? In this telling, it is an act of faith.”
In @reviewcanada, John Casey reviews Colin McAdam’s new novel, “Daphnis and Chloe” - reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202…
Japanese author Ryu Murakami has died, aged 74 - japantimes.co.jp/culture/202…
“This is a universal story of modernity and its discontents,
but Lund is at pains to give it a specifically Norwegian
dimension.”
In @guardian, Sukhdev Sandhu reviews Thure Erik Lund’s newly translated novel, “The Mystery of What Befell in the Ditch” - theguardian.com/books/2026/o…
“It’s a delightful amuse-bouche that is also somehow lavish enough to be a full meal.”
In @reactormag, Alex Brown reviews Susanna Clarke’s new short story, “The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City” - reactormag.com/book-review-t…
“Wescott shows in his stories what is enduring and what we can never bid goodbye to in Wisconsin, and all points beyond.”
In @ChicagoRevBooks, Ross Collin reviews Glenway Wescott’s newly reissued short story collection, “Goodbye, Wisconsin” - chireviewofbooks.com/2026/10…
“Li tells their stories in alternating chapters, loosely grounding her narrative in historical fact and Li’s own expansive imaginative powers.”
In @latimes, Marc Weingarten reviews Yiyun Li’s new novel, “Music Against the Night” - latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
“It is her eye for detail in drawing three narrators of such convincingly impeccable moral integrity that gives this novel its power.”
In @booksinbc, Daniel Gawthrop reviews Michelle Good’s new novel, “Eliza Sunshine” - thebcreview.ca/2026/10/06/ho…
“If campus politics are simply politics, a campus novel is ultimately just a book about contemporary American life.”
In @newrepublic, Rumaan Alam reviews Ayad Akhtar’s new novel, “The Radiance” - newrepublic.com/article/2163…
“‘Horde of the Counterwind’ has an irresistible power. That power begins, first and foremost, in the novel’s sense of doom.”
In @AncillaryReview, Eden Kupermintz reviews Alain Damasio’s newly translated novel, “Horde of the Counterwind” - ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2…
“Their opposites-attract relationship is soon the talk of the Reichs Chancellery, where infighting is blood sport.”
In @ocreviewofbooks, Julian George reviews Jean-Noël Orengo’s newly translated novel, “You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love” - ocreviewofbooks.org/2026/10/…
“Brave is the reader who makes her way beyond this beginning, with its mystical-scientific waffle, and through the 1,175 pages that follow.”
In @TheTLS, Christy Edwall reviews John Cowper Powys’s newly reissued novel, “A Glastonbury Romance” - the-tls.com/literature/ficti…
“Despite the grieving anguish of its narrator, it is his wry, deadpan humour that carries the novel.”
In @ArtReview_, Gwen Burlington reviews Ben Eastham’s debut novel, “The Floating World” - artreview.com/the-floating-w…
“A novel centred entirely on the experiment would be minimalist, but ‘Black Bag’ sprawls because Kennard is enjoying himself.”
In @LRB, Blake Morrison reviews Luke Kennard’s new novel, “Black Bag” - lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n18/…
“Reis’ conservatism extended to his writing as well, as he was a classicist and particularly fond of writing odes in the Horatian style.”
In Another Chicago Magazine, Matt Martinson reviews Fernando Pessoa’s “The Complete Works of Ricardo Reis” - anotherchicagomagazine.net/2…
“Like the Dickens fable, Campbell’s novel takes place on a single Christmas Eve night, but it’s much more nuanced.”
In @ThirdCoastRvw, Patrick T. Reardon reviews Bonnie Jo Campbell’s new novel, “The Spirits” - thirdcoastreview.com/lit/202…
“At the height of his powers, Young hurled lightning bolts down from the mountains in poems that challenge us to risk true authenticity in our lives.”
In @RainTaxiReview, William Stobb reviews Dean Young’s posthumous poetry collection, “Creature Feature” - raintaxi.com/creature-featur…
“In Dodge City, his prose glides on water as a way of plumbing the depths. It’s like wading at the shoreline only to emerge feeling as if you’ve touched the seabed.”
In @nationalpost, Elizabeth Kelly reviews Patrick deWitt’s new novel, “Dodge City” - nationalpost.com/entertainme…
“The fairytale is only bearable if we believe it isn’t real; otherwise, we’d be petrified.”
In @wwborders, Hannah Jochmans reviews Miljenko Jergović’s newly translated story collection, “Inshallah, Madonna, Inshallah” - wordswithoutborders.org/book…
