
Michelle Johnson
Managing Editor at World Literature Today
Managing & Culture Editor @worldlittoday. Adjunct Professor, OU Law. She/her.
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1 month ago |
worldliteraturetoday.org | Emiley White |Michelle Johnson |James Fawcett |Madeline Meyers
This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. When things are bad, I like to read books where things are even worse.
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1 month ago |
worldliteraturetoday.org | Michelle Johnson |Emiley White |James Fawcett |Madeline Meyers
For those fascinated by bees, birdsong, and remembering biodiversity. For the window-watchers. For the trees. Here is a collection of environmental fiction and nonfiction titles that delve into our living world. Indra SinhaAnimal’s PeopleSimon & Schuster, 2009Alice Elliott DarkFellowship PointMarysue Rucci Books, 2023Imbolo MbueHow Beautiful We WereRandom House, 2021Fernanda TríasPink SlimeTrans. Heather ClearyScribner, 2024Rachel Heng The Great ReclamationRiverhead, 2024Richard PowersThe OverstoryW.
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2 months ago |
worldliteraturetoday.org | Michelle Johnson
This page is available to subscribers. Click here to signin or get access. In February, Europa Editions published Katy Derbyshire’s English translation of Robert Seethaler’s eighth novel, The Café with No Name. The novel was a number-one seller in Germany and enjoyed forty weeks on the Spiegel best-seller list. In the novel, a young man raised in a home for war orphans opens a café in the market square of a poor neighborhood in Vienna.
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Jan 14, 2025 |
worldliteraturetoday.org | Susan Blumberg-Kason |Rita Chang-Eppig |Jonas Elbousty |Michelle Johnson
This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. Erika Swyler is the best-selling author of the critically acclaimed novels Light from Other Stars and The Book of Speculation. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in Catapult, Literary Hub, VIDA, the New York Times, and elsewhere. A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, she seeks to make work that is in dialogue with the arts, sciences, and history.
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Dec 10, 2024 |
worldliteraturetoday.org | James Fawcett |Madeline Meyers |Michelle Johnson |Emiley White
It’s time to celebrate another year of translations, and there’s plenty to celebrate. The inaugural volume of Best Literary Translations 2024 arrived, published by Deep Vellum.
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World Literature Today wants your votes in our “15 Books for the 21st Century, 2021–2025” poll. We asked writers to nominate 1 book that most enlightened, astonished, or moved them. Now it’s your turn! Voting is open through March 5. https://t.co/3bP1pRHIdh https://t.co/XjuFKv23w1

If you haven't yet discovered Veronica Esposito's Untranslatable column, here's a great entry point.

How has the loanword ℎ𝑦𝑔𝑔𝑒 tapped into the cultural zeitgeist? Consider the origins of ℎ𝑦𝑔𝑔𝑒 and how translation makes a well-worn concept new in Veronica Esposito’s most recent Untranslatable column. #hygge #translation https://t.co/CvP0QAVUgO https://t.co/gnzmWpnWIV

“Katie Whittemore’s translation of Juan Gómez Bárcena’s Not Even the Dead is a master class in the art of translation.” Andrew Martino (@apmartino) reviews this “hallucination, existing somewhere between the worlds of Joseph Conrad and Cormac McCarthy.” https://t.co/0Ah3aHdTFe https://t.co/vSX6MBNATP