In Asterix and His Secrets in The New York Sun versatile translator (of Asterix and W.G.Sebald, among others) Anthea Bell, compares the comics-legends.

The shortlists for the Annual Translation Prizes for superior English translations of French works published in 2007 awarded by the French-American Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation are out.

Tahar Ben Jelloun and Patrick Rambaud get the last two places at the Academie Goncourt table, so now they're all set to start wading through the 700 or so titles they have to consider for the Prix Goncourt this fall.