Interviewing a translator is one of the quiet pleasures of literary work: you pull back the curtain on decisions most readers never see, and you learn how meaning migrates between languages. Over the years I’ve interviewed translators for Storyscoutes Co and for other projects, and I’ve come to...
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Deep Reads
It begins, often, with a fragment: a single sheet of paper, a smudged date in...
Reading Guides
I love setting myself a small, intense reading mission: seven days, one region,...
Reading Guides
I often find that the first barrier to reading translated poetry is not the...
New Voices
I often find the most thrilling reading discoveries not on bestseller lists but...
I have a soft spot for charity shops and secondhand stalls—their mismatched shelves and cardboard boxes feel like invitations. Over the years I’ve learned to read those murmured voices of books: the cracked spines that have been loved, the...
When I think about the twentieth-century novels that have stayed with me longest, they’re almost always the ones that arrived quietly into my life—pulled from a mis-shelved pile in a charity shop, recommended by a bookseller who could not be...