Anita Moskát and Austin Wagner talk about “Liecraft” (Apex Magazine)
Anita Moskát and translator Austin Wagner talk about Moskát’s story “Liecraft,” included in the latest issue of Apex Magazine.
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Review: Kallocain by Karin Boye
translated by Gustav Lannestock original publication (in Swedish): 1940 first English edition: 1966, the University of Wisconsin Press 220 pages grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library Kallocain is often grouped with Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We (1920, tr. 1924), Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932), and George Orwell’s 1984 (1949) because
Hamid Ismailov and Shelley Fairweather-Vega talk about We Computers
Hamid Ismailov and translator Shelley Fairweather-Vega talk on Words Without Borders about the the genesis and translation of We Computers, longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature.
Review: Diving Board by Tomás Downey
translated from the Spanish by Sarah Moses first English edition: 2025, Invisible Publishing 192 pages grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library Some of the nineteen stories in Tomás Downey’s collection Diving Board are difficult to read–violence happens without warning and is described with a deadpan tone that’s downright disturbing.
Stanislaw Lem at Reactor
Alex Przybyla on “Stanislaw Lem’s Greatest Character: An Introduction to Ijon Tichy” (Reactor). For more on Stanislaw Lem and Polish SFT, go here.
Out This Month: October
“Giant Grandmother” by Liu Maijia, translated from the Chinese by Blake Stone-Banks (Clarkesworld, October 1) Black Hole Heart and Other Stories by K. A. Teryna, translated from the Russian by Alex Shvartsman (Fairwood Press, October 1) The world is not how we perceive it. A blizzard may be the fury of a whale god. Intelligent
Review: Blood for the Undying Throne by Sung-il Kim
(The Bleeding Empire #2) translated by Anton Hur original publication (in Korean): ? first English edition: 2025, Tor 384 pages grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library Blood for the Undying Throne, the second in Sung-il Kim’s Bleeding Empire series, continues the story of provincial struggle against imperial domination. As
Yuki Tejima on Translating Mizuki Tsujimura
On LitHub, translator Yuki Tejima talks about translating Mizuki Tsujimura’s Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon (Scribner) into English.
Review: The Wax Child by Olga Ravn
translated by Martin Aitken original publication (in Danish): 2023 first English edition: 2025, New Directions 144 pages grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library This small, strange, polyphonic book refuses to settle down into something knowable. As someone who’s learned about and read multiple texts about the (American) witch hunts
Review: Eye of the Monkey by Krisztina Tóth
translated by Ottilie Mulzet original publication (in Hungarian): 2022 first English edition: 2025, Seven Stories Press 304 pages grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library Eye of the Monkey, Hungarian author Krisztina Tóth’s first novel to be translated into English, could have been one of the best works of SFT
