I’m both excited that The New York Times ran a lovely review of my translation of Ana Paula Maia’s chilling novel On Earth As It Is Beneath and puzzled that the fact of it being translated wasn’t mentioned in the ……
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Confession: it was really hard to pick just five, but when a new platform, Shepherd.com, asked if I would try, I couldn’t resist. I’m excited to be teaching a course on doubles in literature this fall, and making this list ……
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A personal essay in LitHub Publishing The Charterhouse of Padma, a novel with a mirrored narrative, has got me thinking–and writing–about why I’m so obsessed with doubles in life and literature. This essay exploring two doubled architectures, one imagined, one ……
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Chuffed to see my first novel, The Toss of a Lemon, show up on a list of summer reading recommendations over 15 years after it first was published! Most of my favorite books have aged well, so I hope mine ……
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Thrilled to get this endorsement and hoping it presages success in the English-speaking world for this important book: “Part theory, part manifesto, part history of Black feminist thought, Djamila Ribeiro’s hugely popular take on racial and gender identity in Brazil—translated ……
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An interview with Malcolm Fraser of the Montreal Review of Books about Like Every Form of Love that turned out to be a wonderful personal reading of the book. “Viswanathan may not have all the answers,” he concludes, “but she ……
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A recent piece in The Globe and Mail asking why “chosen family” should be any less complicated than unchosen family.
I’ve been gratified beyond measure by the attention in Brazil to my translation of a Brazilian god, including letters from academics and journalists starting nerdy discussions with me on fine points–my happy place! An unexpected development has been media coverage ……
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I recently had an email conversation with Miguel Conde, the reviews editor at the venerated online magazine of international literature Words Without Borders. Miguel is a perceptive and intimidatingly well-informed reader and it was a very fun exchange but I ……
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My thoughts on it are here: a piece for the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative on one of Brazil’s best-loved writers and why we’ve never heard of him. Graciliano Ramos: All educated Brazilians have read at least one of his books and more ……
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