Trevor Berrett 
It’s arrived: the longlist for the Best Translated Book Award, my favorite book prize of the year. This year, we had to wait a bit longer than we have in the past, but it’s worth it! The nine judges for the fiction award have worked their way through almost 500 books, and now we get to sit back … Read more
This week’s New Yorker fiction is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Apollo.” Read the full post.
The Best Translated Book Award longlist is about to be announced. In this post, I’ve put together the clues we’ve gotten so far about what’s on the list as well as a few of my own prognostications and blind suppositions. Read the full post.
Trevor reviews Emily St. John Mandel’s 2014 novel, Station Eleven, a finalist for the National Book Award, the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Read the full post.
The 2015 PEN Translation Prize Longlist has been announced. Read the full post.
David and Trevor are back with The Eclipse Viewer 26: Jean Grémillon During the Occupation. Read the full post and get the link to the podcast.
Trevor reviews Ingmar Bergman’s 1972 film, Cries and Whispers, a new edition of which is out today from The Criterion Collection. Read the full post.
This week’s New Yorker fiction is Kamel Daoud’s “Kamel,” translated from the French by John Cullen. Read the full post.
Two lucky winners from the United States will get a free copy of Lydia Davis’s Can’t and Won’t, which Picador is publishing in paperback next week. Read the full post.
