Ainee Jeong reviews Sawako Nakayasu’s collection « Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From » and shows how it disrupts familiar paradigms of reading and translation.
Some Girls Translate Not in Twos
The Suffering Detective: Manchette’s «No Room at the Morgue»
Vancouver-based writer Don English shares his take on the most recent Jean-Patrick Manchette offering from NYRB Classics: «No Room at the Morgue», translated by Alyson Waters.
Crooked Symmetry: Cárdenas’s «Ornamental»
Sevinç Türkkan reviews her nomination for the 2021 PEN Translation Award: Colombian author Juan Cárdenas’s novel «Ornamental», translated into English by Lizzie Davis.
