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Translations from the Italian and French, a novel set on mining land, new releases by Booker Prize favourites, and more.

Article: Rabbi Shai Held on the Heart of Jewish Life (REVIEW ESSAY) - Rabbi Shai Held (born in 1971; ordination, Jewish Theological Seminary, 1999; Ph.D., Harvard University, 2010) has published a massively researched new 2024 book titled Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). It is a tour de force in biblical interpretation.

From books about disintegrating relationships and countries to a worker’s-eye view of Korea and a story of farmers in Brazil, the selected titles engage with current realities, say the judging panel

South Korean literary giant Hwang Sok-yong’s “Mater 2-10” has been longlisted for the 2024 International Booker Prize, the organizers of the British literary awards announced Monday. "Mater 2-10," co-translated by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae, and published by Scribe Publications, is among the 13 books on the longlist for one of the world's most prestigious literary awa...

The $86K annual award celebrates the best works of fiction that have been translated into English.

Nominated books include Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare and The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone

The International Booker Prize team points to a quarter of its 2o24 longlist as evidence of a 'second Latin American boom' in literature.

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By Domenico Starnone. Translated from the Italian by Oonagh Stransky.

In his homeland, Domenico Starnone⎯born and raised in Naples⎯may have enjoyed his greatest success with The House on Via Gemito. He’s formidably productive, also a journalist and screenwriter, but this 2001 novel took home the Strega, Italy’s highest honor. Now it’s at last out in English, and if you ask me, the book deserves more of the same.