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Welcome to Women in Translation Month 2019!  This month, we encourage our readers to join the conversation by reading, reviewing, and discussing our new and backlist translations authored by women.  Follow #WITMonth on social media and check our blog daily for a chance to win one of our translated titles!

This month, we’ll also be at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Academy of Management, American Sociological Association, and the American Political Science Association. Stop by our booth for a chance to save 50% on display copies!

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New Book Tuesday! Manufacturing Decline, To Fulfill These Rights, Crude Volatility and more! (Aug 20, 2019)
Our weekly list of new books is now available! Manufacturing Decline How Racism and the Conservative Movement Crush the American Rust Belt Jason Hackworth To Fulfill These Rights Political Struggle Over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions Amaka Okechukwu Dying for Rights Putting North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses on the Record Sandra Fahy Crude Volatility The
Q&A: Howard Goldblatt on Translating Literary Works and the Fiction of Wang Anyi (Aug 20, 2019)
“Wang Anyi is one of the most critically acclaimed writers in the Chinese-speaking world.” ~Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review   Today’s Women in Translation Month featured title is Wang Anyi’s Fu Ping, translated by Howard Goldblatt. Fu Ping follows the titular character’s slow discovery of the alleys and side streets of Shanghai through glimpses
Book Giveaway! Fu Ping: A Novel (Aug 19, 2019)
“Cast with ordinary people and steeped in lyrical simplicity, Howard Goldblatt’s superb translation of Fu Ping commands a disarmingly quiet beauty. It is as if Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg had miraculously resurfaced, not in the cornfields of Ohio but in the shadows of Shanghai.” ~Yunte Huang, editor of The Big Red Book of Modern Chinese Literature
Book Excerpts: Translations From Heian-Era Japan (Aug 16, 2019)
Heian-era Japan saw a flowering of literature, especially at the imperial court. Women wrote diaries, essays, poems, romances, and novels that circulated widely during and after the authors’ lives. To honor these writers, we’re closing the second week of Women in Translation Month by indulging our readers with intriguing excerpts from, The Pillow Book of Sei
Book Excerpt! The Pillow Bookfrom The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays: Zuihitsu from the Tenth to the Twenty-First Century (Aug 15, 2019)
“The focused ramble of the traditional Japanese essay format called zuihitsu (literally, ‘following the brush’) has appealed to writers of both genders, all ages, and every class in Japanese society. Highly personal, these essays contain dollops of philosophy, odd anecdotes, quiet reflection, and pronouncements on taste. In running alongside the main tracks of Japanese literature,

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