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.
It’s time once again to topple your TBR stacks with some awesome newly-translated fiction! This month features two novels from ...
Admit it- back in the ’90s, you had the urge to send Larry David and Jerry ideas for Seinfeld episodes. ...
The following obits for the Novel, Review, Pen, Library, Reader, and Writer, were found in various newspapers- oh wait, aren’t ...
It’s July, so it’s time for another fabulous crop of newly-translated fiction. This time, I’m highlighting works from South Korea, ...
I visited this charming Southern city on the Kentucky/Indiana border several years ago to give a paper at a literary ...
Artists, coal miners, prostitutes, politicians: you’ll find all of these characters and more in the works of Émile Zola. I ...
While we at the Riot are taking this lovely summer week off to rest (translation: read by the pool/ocean/on our ...
Languages, as we all know, are constantly in flux, and English is no different. So with all of the recent ...
You might find this hard to believe, but Dead Poets Society turned 25 on June 9. I know. Nothing like ...
We hard-core readers have all been there. You’re trying to have a serious conversation with someone about a book you’re ...