The Monthly Digest: September 2018

August was Women in Translation Month (#WITMonth) and LARB featured a number of pieces celebrating women writers in translation and women translators. Of course, our commitment to promoting writing by women, as well as work in translation, is constant — so you can expect to see more of the same in September, October, and all the months to come. — LARB Editorial

Messy Human Beings: On “In the Distance with You”
"In the Distance with You" has all the twists and turns of a long-running daytime soap. What ultimately carries it isn’t the plot, but the characters.
Tara CheesmanAug 31, 2018
- Around the World
- Noir
Two Mirrors: On Leonid Yuzefovich’s “Horsemen of the Sands”
Yelena Furman rides along with “Horsemen of the Sands” by Leonid Yuzefovich, translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz.
Yelena FurmanAug 30, 2018
- Around the World
- Fiction
I Never Got the Knack of Fidelity: On Gabriela Wiener’s “Crónicas”
Lisa Fetchko reviews Gabriela Wiener's "Sexographies."
Lisa FetchkoAug 29, 2018
Gendered “Revenge” in Emma Ramadan’s Reworking of Brice Matthieussent’s Meta-Novel
Arshy Azizi thinks Emma Ramadan’s translation of Brice Matthieussent’s “Revenge of the Translator” constitutes a radical act of subversion.
Arshy AziziAug 23, 2018
- Around the World
- Fiction
The Words That Don’t Kill: Interview with Tetiana Savchynska
Yuliya Komska interviews Tetiana Savchynska, the Ukrainian translator of Kazuo Ishiguro and John Le Carré, about the language in war and literature.
Yuliya KomskaAug 19, 2018
- Around the World
- Fiction
Revolt and Revulsion in Margarita García Robayo’s “Fish Soup”
Margarita García Robayo’s prose is concise and startling, her voice versatile and capable of packing a serious punch.
Ellen JonesAug 14, 2018
- Around the World
- Fiction
Revisions of Resistance in Beatriz Bracher’s “I Didn’t Talk”
Bracher’s slim, dense novel lingers in the eddies of personal memory and historical reckoning.
Victoria BaenaAug 7, 2018
- Around the World
- Fiction
Homer for Scalawags: Emily Wilson’s “Odyssey”
Richard H. Armstrong journeys through Emily Wilson’s new translation of Homer’s “Odyssey.”
Richard H. ArmstrongAug 5, 2018
- Poetry