2024 Holiday Gift Guide
December 2, 2024
As gift-giving season approaches, we’re excited to share our recommendations for many different types of readers! For Story Seekers: Everyone loves a good story, and this time of year provides… READ MORE
Tag: literature
Reflections on Freedom and Hope: A Note from Karine Rashkovsky, the author of “An Improbable Life: My Father’s Escape from Soviet Russia”
August 12, 2024
We are pleased to present here an overview of Karine Rashkovsky’s An Improbable Life: My Father’s Escape from Soviet Russia, accompanied by a short piece of commentary on the book… READ MORE
“I, the Jewish People”: Reflections from Emanuela Barasch Rubinstein
July 18, 2024
We are pleased to present below an essay from Intimate Solitude author Emanuela Barasch Rubinstein reflecting on how her own life experiences as well as her family’s inspired the forthcoming… READ MORE
“The First Christmas”: An Excerpt from 18: JEWISH STORIES TRANSLATED FROM 18 LANGUAGES
August 15, 2023
This excerpt from 18: Jewish Stories Translated from 18 Languages explores the psychological impact of the Holocaust on a survivor and his family after the war, when the narrator is confronted by his two sons, who want to buy a Christmas tree. This short story is by Gábor T. Szántó and translated from Hungarian by Walter Burgess and Marietta Morry.
Translator Interview: Alexander Rojavin on literary translation, the precision of language, and the works of Alexander Genis & Fazil Iskander
May 22, 2023
ASP is pleased to present an interview with Alexander Rojavin, translator of Alexander Genis’s Dovlatov and Surroundings: A Philological Novel and Fazil Iskander’s Man and His Surroundings, for #ReadTheWorld, an online bookfair celebrating translation organized by the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA).
International Women’s Day 2022: A Selection of Women-Authored Poetry and Prose from ‘Words for War’ and ‘The White Chalk of Days’
March 8, 2022
This International Women’s Day, we’d like to not only elevate the experiences and voices of women, but also continue our spotlight on Ukraine and Ukrainian voices by pointing readers towards just a few of the women poets, translators, and authors whose work is found in The White Chalk of Days: The Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series Anthology and Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine. Both books, unprecedented collections of post-Soviet Ukrainian literature in English translation originally published in 2017, are available to read for free online here and here.
ASP Abridged: Uncoupling Language and Religion by Laurent Mignon
May 26, 2021
We are pleased to present the latest in a new series of blog posts, ASP Abridged, in which authors give readers a short and sweet introduction to their latest book.
Here, Laurent Mignon introduces us to his new book, Uncoupling Language and Religion: An Exploration into the Margins of Turkish Literature.
ASP Abridged: The Storytelling Human: Lithuanian Folk Tradition Today
December 9, 2020
We are pleased to present the latest in a new series of blog posts, ASP Abridged, in which authors give readers a short and sweet introduction to their latest book.
Here, Lina Būgienė introduces us to her new book, The Storytelling Human: Lithuanian Folk Tradition Today.
An Interview with Mark Andryczyk, Editor of The White Chalk of Days
February 8, 2018
Academic Studies Press is delighted to present this interview—our first in a series—with Mark Andryczyk, editor of The White Chalk of Days: The Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series Anthology.
The White Chalk of Days presents translations of literary works by Ukrainian authors that imaginatively engage pivotal issues in today’s Ukraine and express its tribulations and jubilations. Featuring poetry, fiction, and essays by fifteen Ukrainian writers, the anthology offers English-language readers a wide array of the most beguiling literature written in Ukraine in the past fifty years.