February 1, 2018 Interview with Rosamund Bartlett about Dostoyevsky and “The Russian Soul” Interview by Karen Langley Karen: Rosamund, thank you for agreeing to an interview with Shiny New Books! You have a distinguished career as a translator,…
December 1, 2014 Translator’s Perspective: An ‘Ordinary’ Christmas By Emily Boyce During the festive season, Versailles sparkled with inevitability While translating Pascal Garnier’s novel The Islanders, set over several days in December in…
April 29, 2014 On Translating Boel Westin’s Biography of Tove Jansson – by translator Silvester Mazzarella I am ashamed to admit that I lived in Helsinki (in Swedish Helsingfors), for more than twenty years during Tove Jansson’s lifetime without ever…
April 24, 2014 On Writing by A.L. Kennedy Reviewed by Simon Thomas When I first heard that A.L. Kennedy had written a book called On Writing – now out in paperback – I was…
April 21, 2014 In Search of Gielgud: A Biographer’s Tale by Jonathan Croall Reviewed by Harriet Devine Writing a biography is easy, right? You just have to find out lots of facts about the person, and string…
April 10, 2014 Combining Fact and Fiction in the Writing of ‘The Dance of Love’ by Angela Young The Dance of Love is my second novel, so I’m a novice. I’ve written since I was a child but it’s one thing to write…
