‘What happens to all the children who never see themselves mirrored in books?’ asks Olika’s founding publisher Marie Tomičić. Read More
For the Francophile Book Lovers on Your Holiday List
Literature from France is the specialty of Albertine in Manhattan, the director of which recommends these books for francophone gift recipients. Read More
Reading Up on the Holidays: International Book Recommendations
Our international publishing colleagues tell us which books are on their holiday gift lists this year. We wish you happy holidays and a wonderful New Year. Read More
Political Correctitude
In a season of kneejerk tweets and reckless declarations, I wish you the peace of knowing that you stopped to think. No one else’s gospel matters. Write your own, that’s the one we need now. Read More
‘Serve More’: FutureBook’s Bracing Message
Speakers at the 2016 FutureBook Conference in London emphasized putting disruptive technology to work for book publishers and readers, not fearing it. Porter Anderson Read More
IPA, FEP, EIBF Demand that Turkey Release Prisoners of Conscience
With novelist Aslı Erdoğan and translator Necmiye Alpay still detained, the IPA, FEP, and EIBF call on Turkey to release them. Read More
Escapism is for Readers; Writers Stay in Place
Starting November 8, your readers have become different. However they may lean politically, is escapism what they need from writers? Read More
Political Overtones at the 2016 National Book Awards
In an evening filled with references to the US general election, the National Book Award ceremony brought to the fore joy as ‘an act of resistance.’ Read More
Translating Katja Kettu: ‘At the Margins of History’
As AmazonCrossing arrives at Frankfurt Book Fair this week, Finland’s Katja Kettu’s ‘The Midwife’ has just been released, one of Amazon Publishing’s big books of the year. Read More
Translation: Bodour Al Qasimi on ‘New Impetus for Arab Publishing’
‘A culture without translation is a culture without windows,’ the UAE’s Bodour says. ‘A direct reflection of the challenges we face.’ Read More