SoManyBooks
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Translator & Book Lover. Also at https://bsky.app/profile/somanybooks24.bsky.social
“Human bonds can be repaired, after all, but the wrongs of history may be impossible to rectify.” In Washington Independent Review of Books, Alyson Foster reviews Gaëlle Bélem’s newly translated novel, “The Rarest Fruit” - washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/the…
“Kaplansky’s word and phrase choices sharpen details and images, making them resonate further.” In @RainTaxiReview, Alice-Catherine Carls reviews Hélène Dorion’s newly translated novel, “Not Even the Sound of a River” - raintaxi.com/not-even-the-s…
“Lind writes her character with feral abandon, in poetic, hypnotic prose.” In @BuzzMagWales, Gosia Buzzanca reviews Cecilie Lind’s newly translated novel, “Girlbeast” - buzzmag.co.uk/girlbeast-ceci…
“He infuses physical objects with an innately Greek sense of history, often with a quiet yet transgressive eroticism.” In @PoetryFound, André Naffis-Sahely reviews Yannis Ritsos’s newly translated poetry collection, “Exercises: 1950–1960” - poetryfoundation.org/articles/17041…
“Farr makes the fantastical seem plausible and everyday objects – a stick, a bottle, faded shreds of ribbon – conveyors of radiance and magic.” In @ANZRevBooks, Paula Morris reviews Tracy Farr’s new novel, “Wonderland” - nzreviewofbooks.com/wonderland-by-…
“Language is a consolation for the conscious living that has to exist, for a brief moment, outside the order of life.” In @asymptotejrnl, Daniel Yadin reviews bruno darío’s newly translated poetry collection, “Lantana or, the indissoluble exhalation” - asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/07/1…
“Like the writing of Hiroko Oyamada, Kimura’s writing here is deeply unsettling.” In @BookReviewsAsia, Alison Fincher reviews Kumi Kimura’s newly translated novel, “Someone to Watch Over You” - asianreviewofbooks.com/someone-to-wat…
“He doesn’t let your gaze wander around the scene with curiosity: he insists you focus on one terrible act only.” In @clereviewbooks, Rebecca Hanssens-Reed reviews Felix Nesi’s newly translated novel, “People from Oetimu” - clereviewofbooks.com/felix-nesi-peo…
“Memories weave with jarring transitions. Time moves improperly. Death lurks at the corners, too-familiar, too recognizable.” In @ChicagoRevBooks, Leah Rachel von Essen reviews Kyung-Ran Jo’s newly translated novel, “Blowfish” - chireviewofbooks.com/2025/07/17/an-…
“At its best, ‘Absence’ moves through memory the way novels such as Proust’s and Sebald’s do: with a poignant depth retaining something of memory’s quicksilver quality.” In @NecessaryFic, D.W. White reviews Issa Quincy’s debut novel, “Absence” - necessaryfiction.com/reviews/absenc…
“The fantasy world shows its construction materials, and you realize the extent of Randt’s expert world-building.” In @bookforum, Elvia Wilk reviews Leif Randt’s newly translated novel, “Allegro Pastel” - bookforum.com/print/3201/thi…
“It is a narrative that urges the personal to emerge from its cocoon and invites the vast outer world to penetrate inward—without delimiting the story’s potential reach.” In @asiancha, Kabir Deb reviews Jeet Thayil’s new novel, “The Elsewhereans” - chajournal.blog/2025/07/14/els…
“Despite its interest in absences, ‘I Gave You Eyes is’ a story of startling plenitude.” In @fullstopmag, Molly MacVeagh reviews Irene Solà’s newly translated novel, “I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness” - full-stop.net/2025/07/04/rev…
“But despite Vera’s Nabokovian struggles, this is a hilarious book.” In @sfchronicle, Allison Arieff reviews Gary Shteyngart’s new novel, “Vera, or Faith” - sfchronicle.com/entertainment/…
US poet Fanny Howe has died, aged 84 - vineyardgazette.com/news/2025/07/1…
“While the narrator of ‘Red Dog Farm’ is a young man named Orri, it’s through his father, Víðir, that Miller engages the specter of Laxness.” In @RainTaxiReview, Sara Maurer reviews Nathaniel Ian Miller’s new novel, “Red Dog Farm” - raintaxi.com/red-dog-farm/
“Her novels, underneath their light exteriors, are quietly but unmistakably subversive.” In @NewYorker, Claire Jarvis revisits Elizabeth von Arnim’s “The Enchanted April” - newyorker.com/books/second-r…
“DeLynn expertly captures the details of teenage life in the 1960s, partly thanks to her ear for dialogue.” In @LRB, Malin Hay reviews Jane DeLynn’s reissued novel, “In Thrall” - lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/…
“The novel is atmospherically anxious, evoking the ‘uneasy tension’ of a world on the edge of disaster.” In @TheBrooklynRail, Meghan Racklin reviews Daniel Saldaña París’s newly translated novel, “The Dance and the Fire” - brooklynrail.org/2025/07/books/…
“Pia Tafdrup is one of the most important contemporary Danish poets” In @eurolitnet, Anna Blasiak reviews Pia Tafdrup’s newly translated poetry collection, “The Sight of Light / The Sound of Clouds / The Touch of Skin” - eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingreview…