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The Battle between the Frogs and the Mice, translated from the Greek by A. E. Stallings, has made the shortlist for the 2020 National Translation Awards in Poetry and Prose. The award is administered by the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) and includes a rigorous examination of both the source text... [Details]

Booklist reviewed A. M. Juster's new book of poetry, Wonder & Wrath, calling it a "strong collection" and "not to be missed": Juster is a formalist poet with nine previous collections, including The Secret Language of Women (2002), which received the Richard Wilbur Award. Juster regards the common and the... [Details]

The Battle between the Frogs and the Mice, translated from the Greek by A. E. Stallings, has been longlisted for the 2020 National Translation Awards in Poetry and Prose. The award is administered by the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) and includes a rigorous examination of both the source text and... [Details]

The London Review of Books reviewed The Battle between the Frogs and Mice, translated by A. E. Stallings and illustrated by Grant Silverstein: With two introductions – one under Stallings’s name and another by ‘A. Nony Mouse’ – plus a glossary of dramatis personae, an appendix and the notes of... [Details]

The Washington Independent Review of Books reviewed The Joy of Sorcery by Sten Nadlony, calling it, "A stirring call for the next generation to learn the lessons of the past. Ultimately, what Pahroc chooses to pass on to his granddaughter and the reader is a reminder that life has a... [Details]

The Times Literary Supplement reviewed Susan Levenstein's Dottoressa: An American Doctor in Rome, calling it a "lighthearted yet trenchant memoir." Read the full review. [Details]

Bryn Mawr Classical Review featured A. E. Stallings' The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice calling it, "A delightful surprise . . . Clever puns and plays-on-words punctuate the translation and the introduction . . . There is something Carrollian in Stallings’ taste for puns and in the lightness of... [Details]

Light Poetry Magazine reviewed The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice by A. E. Stallings and Grant Silverstein:"The battle begins in Aesopian style with a frog luring a mouse to its death. (Was it deliberate? You decide.) The subsequent outcry leads to all-out war, albeit a tiny one. Those... [Details]

Booklist reviewed The King of Nothing Much by Jesse Edward Johnson in its March 15, 2020 issue, calling it, "a bighearted riff on masculine anxiety." Read the full review.  [Details]

The Los Angeles Review of Books ran a long review praising The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice, translated by A. E. Stallings and illustrated by Grant Silverstein:"It takes real poetic skill to parody a master so subtly that the result becomes mistaken for the poetry of the master himself at... [Details]