Brazilian writer Nelson Rodrigues — a master at evoking the humor and pathos of out-of-control libidos.
Life As It Is: Selected Stories
By Nelson Rodrigues. Translated from the Portuguese by Alex Ladd. Host Publications, 314 pages
Reviewed by Bill Marx
No nonsense British philosopher Thomas Hobbes famously described man’s life as it is as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and [...]

The handsomely produced bilingual volume reflects a committed and passionate marriage of an exacting poet-translator and Yiddish poetry.

With Everything We’ve Got: A Personal Anthology of Yiddish Poetry
Edited and translated by Richard J. Fein. Host Publications, 218 pages.
Reviewed by Anna Razumnaya

Fortuitously, just before the publication of Richard Fein’s new anthology With Everything We’ve Got, I [...]