by Ruth Chester I’d like to tell you about my latest translated book, Translating Concepts: Metamorphosis Through Encounter by Stefano Arduini, which is coming out with Routledge later this year. A…

Chenxin Jiang talks to Geoffrey Brock about his translation of Silvia Vecchini’s Before Nightfall, a young adult novel about the siblings Carlo and Emma. Carlo is a teenager who happens to be…

by Lori Hetherington The old woman finished peeling a chestnut and, after handing it to the youngest of her grandchildren, began to speak with her sweet voice and the pure accent of Tuscany’s mount…

by Leah Janeczko October 16th will be an exciting start to an exciting book fair during a truly exciting year for Italian publishing! That morning, translators from around the globe will meet at th…

by Richard Dixon The World Machine is a vivid novelistic portrayal of rural life in postwar Italy. Its narrator, a small-time farmer, is one of life’s misfits, a young man who generally manages to …

by Jamie Richards Recently I attended a packed celebration of Simon Hanselmann’s work at the Museum of Modern Art in Los Angeles where he concluded by exhorting everyone to “read more comics!” in o…

by Will Schutt The Pluto that appears in the title of the Swiss Italian poet Fabio Pusterla’s selected poetry in English is not the planet. It isn’t the Disney character, either. It is Hades’ Roman…

by Katherine Gregor I was struggling with the copious passages in regional dialect in a novel I was translating from Italian, so I asked my publishers to put me in touch with the author so that she…

by Gregory Conti In this latest book by Italy’s best-known botanist, Stefano Mancuso speaks to his readers where the vast majority of them live, in cities. More and more, and the summer of 2024 is …