Remembering Peter Owen: 1927-2016
Peter Owen, for more than sixty years a defining presence among British and worldwide publishers, has died in London. He was eighty-nine. Born in Nuremberg in 1927 to a German… Read more »
What’s better for translated literature: starting a publishing house or publicizing what’s already available?
Last week saw an interesting, and surprisingly combative, exchange between a couple of important voices in the world of translation. It was all kicked off by a blogpost in the… Read more »
“Can someone save criticism from The Atlantic?”
So asks Scott Esposito at Conversational Reading, in reply to a new essay by Sarah Fay — “Could the Internet Save Book Reviews?” — published on the website of The… Read more »