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What is wilderness when seven billion people share the planet and nowhere remains truly untouched? Author and journalist Cal Flyn discusses her book The Savage …

Eight months after the launch of the paperback of Relearning to Read: Adventures in Not-knowing, the ebook edition has hit the virtual shelves. It’s been lovely…

Last month I had the honour of introducing the Indie Press Network’s spring showcases, two virtual events presenting some of the key titles coming out from smal…

If you’ve never heard of Jeyamohan, I wouldn’t be surprised. Until recently, his work wasn’t widely available in English outside India. That is starting to chan…

It’s been my pleasure to be involved with a number of podcasts focusing on reading and/or translation in recent months in various capacities – as a guest, inter…

As the heatwaves rippled across Europe, one summer novel held me gripped. It comes from Foundry Editions, an indie publisher set up in 2023 to champion literatu…

This Women in Translation month, I’m featuring a collection of short stories by the Lebanese writer and critic Lana Abdelrahman. I had the pleasure of meeting a…

This book came onto my radar when we invited London-based Belarusian poet and translator Hanna Komar to be a guest on Collected, the podcast I produce for the R…

Mexican architects have been combining principles from ancient architecture with modern techniques. Curator and writer Su Wu picks five examples of this phenome…

Are you looking for books that can change the way you live your life? Maybe you’re looking for stories that inspire personal growth or motivate you to try new t…