Long out of print in English, this is the story of a single mother in 1970s Japan. By Yuko Tsushima. Translated from the Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt. Available February 22 from New York Review ...

Written in 1881 and translated into English in 1952, 1955, and 1997, with two new translations released in 2020, the book exudes modernity.

Some of these books delve into the history of English and how it got that way (did you know, for instance, that the word "spit" is roughly 15,000 years old, but the word "orange" is only about 450 ...

Part of our series, 5 Million Voices. I grew up speaking Spanish, and I didn't start learning English until I was in preschool. When it came to books, I struggled — like many ELL students — to ...

Along with Afrikaans, English is one of South Africa’s 11 official languages, and even though only 9.6 percent of the population speak English as their first language, it “dominates every ...

After the success of Prime Video ’s hit series Maxton Hall, author Mona Kasten’s German-language book trilogy will be translated in English and published in America for the first time, and she ...

Charlie English delves into the CIA's attempts to combat communism via literature including '1984' in a book that reminds, in an age of book bans, how powerful stories — and reading — can be.

Chris Stanislawski didn’t read much in his middle school English classes, but it never felt necessary. Students were given detailed chapter summaries for every novel they discussed, and teachers ...

Schumacher, as it happens, also teaches English and creative writing — in her case at the University of Minnesota — and is clearly well versed in the sort of academic turf wars, departmental ...

Education Local News South Seattle families publish new Somali-English children’s books Feb. 3, 2023 at 6:00 am Updated Feb. 3, 2023 at 7:21 am ...