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Autobiography of Cotton Cristina Rivera Garza Review

May 5, 2026 Guest Contributor Comments Off

Nick Caistor, author of Mexico Inside Out, explores how Cristina Rivera Garza weaves a personal and political tapestry of Mexico in Autobiography of Cotton just published by And Other Stories. By the 1930s, the years […]

Angst Hélène Cixous Review

March 17, 2026 Guest Contributor Comments Off

Hélène Cixous is best known in the Anglophone world for her 1976 essay The Laugh of the Medusa (Le Rire de la Méduse) — published in English one year later — in which she laid […]

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Charlie Coombe & Tina Kover Translator Interview

February 13, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

In this translator interview for BookBlast Diary, Charlie Coombe and Tina Kover talk language, literature, inspiration, success and more. Tell us a little bit about yourself. Charlie Coombe (CC): I have been a translator for […]

Venice Requiem Khalid Lyamlahy Review

February 2, 2026 Guest Contributor Comments Off

Khalid Lyamlahy’s Venice Requiem, out with HopeRoad’s imprint Small Axes in four days’ time, impeccably translated by Ros Schwartz, is a novel based on the true story of Pateh Sabally, a twenty-two-year-old Gambian refugee. In […]

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Killing the Nerve Anna Pazos Review

January 9, 2026 Guest Contributor Comments Off

Killing the Nerve by Anna Pazos, superbly translated by Charlotte Coombe and Laura McGloughlin, is an autobiographical account of the early stages of a journalistic career (a genre the blurb calls ‘auto-journalism’) which focuses less […]

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In Farthest Seas Lalla Romano Review

October 30, 2025 Guest Contributor Comments Off

In Farthest Seas by Lalla Romano, tr. Brian Robert Moore, is published by Pushkin Press. “For me, to write has always been to pluck from the dense and complex fabric of life, some image, from […]

The Winter Warriors Olivier Norek BookBlast Review

The Winter Warriors Olivier Norek Review

September 14, 2025 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

The Winter Warriors by Olivier Norek, beautifully translated by Nick Caistor, is based on the conflict between Finland and the Soviet Union known as the Winter War. Norek draws on genuine battles and hardships which […]

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The Connection Between The Sabres of Paradise and Dune? Spotlight

March 22, 2024 Ben F Comments Off

More and more articles about the connection between The Sabres of Paradise and Dune are appearing online. Direct film adaptations provide the biggest boost to the popularity of a book and its sales, so […]