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Rachel Cordasco

Rachel Cordasco has a Ph.D in literary studies and currently works as a developmental editor. When she's not at her day job or chasing three kids, she's writing reviews and translating Italian speculative fiction. She runs the website sfintranslation.com, and can be found on Facebook and Twitter.

In Translation: July Fiction and Poetry

Comin’ atcha this month is a batch of mouth-wateringly awesome books in translation: a haunting tale from Mozambique, a fictionalized ...

Read This Instead of That: History Edition

Y’all know that I’m obsessed with history, right? I gobble up history in print and audio like a Rachel who ...

Why Bookish Lists Do Not Signal Armageddon

Whenever someone publishes a bookish list, it seems, the usual grumpy people get all huffy and stamp their feet and ...

In Translation: June Fiction and Poetry

It’s that time again: time to bring you a selection of some of the best translated fiction coming out this ...

Bookish Rachels Everywhere: A Round-Up of Rachels in Literature

In case you haven’t noticed, there are a LOT of Rach(a)els currently writing for Book Riot. I’ve figured out why ...

Our Lists of the Greatest American Authors

Harold Bloom, if you haven’t heard of him, is a longtime literary scholar and professor, as well as the author ...

Recently Translated Fiction from Asia and Africa

American readers’ burgeoning interest in foreign literature and the proliferation of small presses that publish poetry and prose in translation ...

Literary Tourism: Israel

  Israel: it’s a pretty tiny country (smaller than New Jersey), but its inhabitants have managed to pack a whole ...

What To Read During Jewish American Heritage Month

May is Jewish American Heritage Month, in which we recognize how Jews have contributed to American culture for over 350 ...

In Translation: May Fiction and Poetry

May offers us a ton of intriguing works in translation from around the world. This month, I’m highlighting fiction from ...