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It’s National Translation Month, and we’re celebrating by featuring new and backlist titles on our blog! Enter our drawing for a chance to win new books in translation each Monday, peruse our list of weekend reads each Friday, and dive into our featured titles with guest post from our authors, editors, and translators throughout the month!

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Susanne Fusso on Nikolai Nikolaevich and Camouflage and Yuz Aleshkovsky’s Contribution to Russian Literature (Sep 21, 2019)
“Joseph Brodsky once noted that Aleshkovsky had a Mozartian ear for the Russian language, and Nikolai Nikolaevich (1970), his first novel, as well as Camouflage (1978), his fourth – written the year before the author emigrated permanently to the US – are indeed virtuoso performances. . . . Staying faithful to Aleshkovsky’s foul-mouthed muse, White’s translation, edited by Fusso,
José Vergara on Teaching One of the World’s Worst Detective Stories (Sep 20, 2019)
“Sasha Sokolov’s Between Dog and Wolf, delivered in Alexander Boguslawski’s masterful translation, comprises a daring act of immersion into the depths of language that results in semantic spasms of the great Russian literary body. The highly experimental novel, which unquestionably belongs to the highest literary ranks, announces the twilight of the novelistic tradition, but already
Delving Down into Argot: Susan Emanuel on Translating Vice, Crime, and Poverty (Sep 20, 2019)
“This is a lively and fun read. More than tracing the evolution of living conditions of the poor and indigent, Vice, Crime, and Poverty also represents an important contribution to the histoire des mentalités, telling us how different eras viewed the poor in terms of social changes at those times. The transnational aspect greatly enhances this study, making
Emil Draitser on Redemption and How the Soviet Union Attempted to Cover-Up the Holocaust (Sep 20, 2019)
“Redemption is awash with brutal truths, rude awakenings and painful self-discoveries. Gorenstein doesn’t make it easy for his reader: His forbidding theme is the aftermath of the Holocaust — the aftershock of ‘ineluctable, planned murder’ — and his protagonist is an unsympathetic young woman. But the darkness is not total; there are numerous glints of
Mark Teeuwen and Kate Wildman Nakai on Lust, Commerce, and Corruption (Sep 19, 2019)
“What better way to explore the riches of Japanese society before its “opening” to the West than through this masterful translation of one of the most colorful social commentaries of the time? Student and scholar alike will treasure this volume.” ~ Daniel Botsman, Yale University Our focus on translated works about crime and deception continues

New Titles from Distributed Presses

Modern Management Methods
At Home in the World
In Their Own Voices
Queer Studies
Dune
Social Construction of Sex Work