Rebecca Hussey/Of Books and Bikes

I read and recommend a lot of small press books, books in translation, and weird nonfiction. I write for Book Riot and Foreword Reviews, and I write a newsletter called Reading Indie.

Books About Translation VIEW LIST (11 BOOKS)

At Translation's Edge

Why Translation Matters

If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents: A Memoir

Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami

Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto

Literary Translation and the Making of Originals

Transgressive Circulation

Say Translation Is Art

Translation as Transhumance

This Little Art

Fifty Sounds: A Memoir of Language, Learning, and Longing

Great Contemporary Books in Translation VIEW LIST (27 BOOKS)

Woman Running in the Mountains

Elena Knows

Empty Wardrobes

Exteriors

Loop

Minor Detail

Tokyo Ueno Station

The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency

Territory of Light

An I-Novel

Breasts and Eggs

The Wind That Lays Waste

Suite for Barbara Loden

The Bitch

Hurricane Season

VIEW ALL 27 BOOKS

Indie Press Favorites VIEW LIST (17 BOOKS)

Pilot Impostor

Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time

Panthers and the Museum of Fire

Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse

A Ghost in the Throat

Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric

Bina: A Novel in Warnings

The Shame

Stranger Faces

Leonard and Hungry Paul

Heaven

Reproduction

Trans(re)Lating House One

Temporary

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir

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Great Recent Nonfiction VIEW LIST (23 BOOKS)

Linea Nigra: An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes

The Second Body

Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief

The Breaks

No. 91/92: A Diary of a Year on the Bus

Things I Don't Want to Know: On Writing

A Ghost in the Throat

White Magic

The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood

To Write as If Already Dead

Stranger Faces

Index Cards: Selected Essays

The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping

How to Make a Slave and Other Essays

My Meteorite: Or, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing

VIEW ALL 23 BOOKS

Favorite Poetry VIEW LIST (9 BOOKS)

The Wild Iris

The Tradition

Deaf Republic: Poems

Homie: Poems

Book of Hours: Poems

DMZ Colony

The Trees Witness Everything

Be Holding: A Poem

Postcolonial Love Poem: Poems