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2 weeks ago | 
thebookerprizes.com | Hilary Mantel |Iris Murdoch |Eva Baltasar |Julia Sanches
Some authors can make us feel hungry with words alone, vividly describing dishes that will make your mouth water. Food in books often has a symbolic meaning, too, used to express love, gain favour, or to portray a sense of cultural identity or comfort.
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2 months ago | 
nybooks.com | Paula Ramon |Paula Ramón |Julia Sanches |Jennifer Shyue |William Neuman
‘There’s Nothing for Me Here’ What caused Venezuela’s collapse, and who is responsible? A recent memoir tells the story as so many families have lived it.
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Feb 25, 2025 | 
lithub.com | Brittany Allen |Julia Sanches |Heather Cleary |Sean Cotter
The longlist for this year’s International Booker Prize 2025 has been announced. The annually given prize recognizes international literature in translation. The winning book will receive a £50,000 purse, divided equally between author and translator(s). Shortlisted titles receive £5,000. This year’s judging panel was chaired by the author Max Porter, and included a prize-winning poet, a photographer, esteemed translators, and the singer-songwriter Beth Orton.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
adastrastories.substack.com | Andrea Abreu |Julia Sanches |Elena Ferrante |Ann Goldstein
[Dear readers: This issue contains discussions of transphobia.]Thank you to everyone who provided feedback in our recent newsletter survey! From thoughts on these newsletters to insightful advice for our website, we truly appreciate you taking the time. The winner of our giveaway has been contacted, and we look forward to reviewing all your feedback and implementing it going forward—starting with some new additions and reorganization to this newsletter issue.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | A.S. Byatt |Sarah Waters |Eva Baltasar |Julia Sanches
An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes – and the legacy of one of the 20th century’s greatest tragediesWhether you’re new to The Safekeepor have read it and would like to explore it more deeply, here is our comprehensive guide, featuring insights from critics, our judges and the book’s author, as well as discussion points and suggestions for further reading.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
bookshop.org | Julia Sanches |Heather Cleary
(Author) (Translator) (Translator) & 1 more FORMAT Buy new or used from an indie through our partner Biblio: Price Condition Seller Bookshop.org has the highest-rated customer service of any bookstore in the world Description A debut collection of gritty, streetwise, and wickedly funny stories about Mexican women who fight, skirt, cheat, cry, kill, and lie their way to survival. "Life's a bitch.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
asymptotejournal.com | Eva Baltasar |Julia Sanches
In the latest from lauded Catalan author Eva Baltasar, an animal desire is on the rise. Tired of the city, her studies, and the vacuity of contemporary life, the young protagonist of Mammoth seeks out a supposedly simpler provincial existence, and is willing to do anything to get there. Through both physical and psychological extremes, Baltasar’s heightened portrait is both shocking and absorbing, reflecting the chaos of an ego that vibrates with desire and spirals against expectation.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
bookshop.org | Eva Baltasar |Julia Sanches
(Author) (Translator) FORMAT Buy new or used from an indie through our partner Biblio: Price Condition Seller Bookshop.org has the highest-rated customer service of any bookstore in the world Description The followup novel to International Booker-shortlisted Boulder is a story of queer motherhood and survival deep in the countrysideMammoth's protagonist is a disenchanted young lesbian.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
uk.bookshop.org | Promoting Books |Eva Baltasar |Julia Sanches
A GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR 2024AN OBSERVER BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR 2024A NEW STATESMAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR 2024Mammoth’s protagonist is a disenchanted young lesbian. She’s inexperienced, irritated by life, eager to gestate, and determined to strip everything else down to essentials.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
bookshop.org | Julia Sanches
Description WINNER OF A 2023 PEN TRANSLATES AWARDThis punk-like blend of Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives and Samanta Schweblin's Fever Dream heralds an exciting new voice in international fiction Living Things follows four recent graduates - Munir, G, Ernesto, and Álex - who travel from Madrid to the south of France to work the grape harvest.
