I Live in the Slums – An Extract
We are delighted by the news that Can Xue’s I Live in the Slums, translated by Karen Gernant…
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The Skin of Chaos: The Letters of Adonis and Adel Abdessemed, pt. 1
Presented exclusively by YUP in anticipation of the publication of Adonis’ newest book, Concerto al-Quds, We are delighted to…
Yale Summer Reading – Sneak Preview
‘Delectable, utterly brilliant and, in that hackneyed phrase, a must-read.’ – Nigella Lawson on Play All With time…
Alan Titley On Translating Cré na Cille
Cré na Cille or The Dirty Dust by Máirtín Ó Cadhain was originally published in 1949, but has only recently become available…
A Conversation with Tim Parks: A YaleBooks Podcast
Shortly before his death in 1837, Giacomo Leopardi, a prolific Italian writer, translator, and thinker, began to organise…
Novelist Arturo Fontaine talks to Megan McDowell
We are pleased to release an exciting interview between Arturo Fontaine and Megan McDowell, author and translator respectively…
Asymptote Journal interviews Can Xue: Author of ‘Five Spice Street’
Can Xue, meaning ‘dirty snow, leftover snow’, is the pseudonym of Deng Xiaohua, author of many novels and…
Yale University Press Director John Donatich on the Margellos World Republic of Letters
Continuing the English-language publishing success of Greek poet Kiki Dimoula’s new volume of poetry, The Brazen Plagiarist, Yale University Press…
An Interview with Poet Kiki Dimoula by Cecile Inglessis Margellos
Following a recent profile in the New York Times, we are pleased to release a special intimate conversation between Greek…
Translating ‘Foreignness’: Interview with Norman Manea and Oana Sânziana Marian, translator of ‘The Lair’
Translated into English for the first time, Norman Manea’s The Lair explores the human condition of exile, love, isolation and…
Competition: Win a copy of Norman Manea’s ‘The Lair’ and a Margellos canvas tote bag
To celebrate the new titles in our pioneering Margellos World Republic of Letters translation series, for the rest of the…
Translating the Poetry of Kabbalah: Author interview with Peter Cole
Peter Cole’s brand new work of translation, The Poetry of Kabbalah, is the first every English-language collection of poems from the…
Bucharest Spring: Extract from ‘The Black Envelope’ by Norman Manea (part 1)
The Black Envelope is a novel by Jewish Romanian novelist Norman Manea, and has recently been published in…