books, Literature, Modern Languages

What Can Translation Do?

In a new blog post to mark International Translation Day 2026, World Writing in French series editors Charles Forsdick and Martin Munro reflect on translation's role in sustaining linguistic and literary diversity, and ask an urgent question: what can translation do?

Art, books, History, Literature, Religious Studies, The British Academy

The State Bibles

The State Bibles: The Anglo-Dutch Politics of the King James Version and the Statenvertaling, by Esther van Raamsdonk, published by the British Academy, is the first extended comparative study of two key bible translations of the early modern period – the King James Version (1611) and the Dutch Statenvertaling (1637).

Journals, Literature, News

Liverpool University Press to become publisher of Australian Literary Studies

Liverpool University Press (LUP) is pleased to announce that it will become the new publisher of Australian Literary Studies, the fully refereed journal devoted to Australian literary criticism, as well as that which expands the scope of literary studies internationally.