From Akashic Books, Brussels Noir, edited by Michel Dufranne; translated from the Dutch by Katie Shireen Assef; ISBN 9781617753985; US$11.96.
Says me: I'm going to keep plugging these noir.
From Hispabooks Publishing, Landing by Laia Fàbregas; translated from the Spanish by Samantha Schnee; ISBN 9788494426254; US$12.93.
Says me: Full disclosure, the book's translator is Words without Borders's very own founding editor and chairman of the board. I'd also note the book was a finalist of the Femenina Opzij Dutch literary prize. Tell me you're not at least a little bit curious.
Read an excerpt from Landing on Words Without Borders.
From Deep Vellum Publishing, What are the Blind Men Dreaming? by Noemi Jaffe; translated from the Brazilian Portuguese by Julia Sanches and from the Serbian by Ellen Elias-Bursać; ISBN 9781941920367; US$14.95.
Read an excerpt from What Are the Blind Men Dreaming? In WWB's April 2016 issue: Women Write War.
From Restless Books, Between Life and Death by Yoram Kaniuk, translated from the Hebrew by Barbara Harshaw; ISBN 9781632060921; US$22.99.
From Phoneme Media, The End Of The Dark Era by Tseveendorjin Oidov; translated from the Mongolian by Simon Wickhamsmith; ISBN 9781939419804; US$16.
Read an excerpt from the collection at PEN America. While there, you can also read Wickhamsmith's essay on translating The End of the Dark Era.
Says me: I've made no secret as WWB reviews editor of my minor obsession with the work coming out of Phoneme Media. Their aesthetic departure from the sea of sameness, particularly from the colonial-languages-centric model pervading American literature in translation publishing . . . Dare I call it representation? Regardless, it's helping this cynical reader a lot. For this reason and others, The End of the Dark Era is at the top of my own personal reading pile this month.