Professor Robyn Creswell’s English version of Iman Mersal’s The Threshold has been longlisted for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. The Threshold was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in October and has received many enthusiastic reviews. In The New York Review of Books, Ange Mlinko writes, “[Mersal’s] voice is so inviting, so familiar, so confiding that it’s even easy to forget that these are translations: Creswell renders her as a perfect contemporary…To...
6 New Paperbacks to Read This Week
By Miguel Salazar, Reporting for the NYT Books desk
“Our picks this week include Bob Woodward’s third book about the Trump administration, a reissue of James Baldwin’s investigation of the Atlanta child murders and much more…”
KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS:
The Language Revolution That Made China Modern, by Jing Tsu.
Tsu’s account details the challenges that linguists, librarians and others faced in their efforts to standardize and adapt Chinese...
Professor Jing Tsu’s new book, “Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern,” (Riverhead, Penguin Random House, 2022), has been named among the “100 Notable Books of 2022,” by The New York Times and among the twelve “Best Nonfiction of 2022” by The Washington Post. Her book will appear in paperback on January 17, 2023.
Professor Tsu’s book has received wide acclaim in the U.S. and U.K by the following publications: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal,...
