• On Translation

    In Translation

    Ye Chun on Bilingualism and Wuwei Writing

    "Words did not flow. They were squeezed out and then staggered on the page without conviction."

     
    By Ye Chun  October 17, 2023
    On Translation

    Fear of Indirect Contact: Todd Portnowitz on Translating Jhumpa Lahiri

    By Todd Portnowitz  October 10, 2023
    literary criticism

    Why the Russian Protest Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky Still Matter Today

    By Philip Metres  October 10, 2023
    International Literature

    Derangement and Estrangement: On Poetic Turbulence in Translation

    By Joyelle McSweeney  October 9, 2023
    On Translation

    “Bitterness Incarnate:” Douglas J. Weatherford on Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo

    By Douglas J. Weatherford  September 27, 2023
    Translation

    Drifting Along the Current: On the 10th Anniversary of Self-Portrait in Green

    By Jordan Stump  September 12, 2023
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    On Translation

    On Translating Michele Mari, an Italian Literary “Living Legend”

    By Brian Robert Moore  August 9, 2023
    On Translation

    In Praise of “Spicy Interpretation”: On the Pleasure of Unexpected Translations and Explanations

    By Jessica Sequeira  August 4, 2023
    On Translation

    The Unique Challenges of Translating The Brothers Karamazov Into English

    By Michael R. Katz  July 21, 2023
    Feature

    Nothing is Lost in Translation: On Basque, Spanish, English and the Language of Dreams

    Kirmen Uribe on Life and Literature Between Languages

    By Kirmen Uribe  October 16, 2023
    Literary History

    The Complicated Afterlives of
    Roberto Bolaño

    By Aaron Shulman  July 17, 2023
    On Translation

    What Vera Mutafchieva’s The Case of Cem Tells Us About Europe’s Past and Present

    By Angela Rodel  June 23, 2023
    On Translation

    A Babel of Languages: Peter Constantine on the Joys of Translation and Multilingual Writing

    By Esther Allen  June 8, 2023
    On Translation

    Like a Magic Trick: Tim Mohr on Being the Translator and Being Translated

    On the intersection of German translation, East Bloc punk rock, and Hunter S. Thompson

    By Tim Mohr  May 15, 2023
    Writers on Writers

    The Rebel Vocabulary of Ágota Kristóf

    By Helen Oyeyemi  May 4, 2023
    On Translation

    How Annie Ernaux Captures the Spirit of Her Era Through Its Big-Box Stores

    By Literary Hub  April 19, 2023
    On Translation

    Bookworm in a Chrysalis: How Language Acquisition Nourishes a Love of Literature

    By Natasha S. and Larissa Kyzer  April 19, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    A Passion for Living in the Present:
    A Conversation with Yuko Tsushima and Annie Ernaux

    A Piece of Global Literary History Available in English For the First Time

    By Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda  April 6, 2023
    On Translation

    Spokesperson, Intellectual, and… More? On the New and Shifting Role of the Translator

    By Lawrence Venuti  April 5, 2023
    In Memoriam

    Dubravka Ugrešić’s Translators Remember Her

    By Literary Hub  April 3, 2023
    Criticism

    The End of Desire: Christiane Blot-Labarrère on Marguerite Duras’s No More

    By Christiane Blot-Labarrère  March 22, 2023
    On Translation

    Every Writer Should Learn How to Translate

    Kristen Renee Miller on the Transformative Experience of Translating Marie-Andrée Gill

    By Kristen Renee Miller  March 20, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Xiaolu Guo on Translating
    the Self

    By Xiaolu Guo  March 10, 2023
    Politics

    In the Hour of War: Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky on Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry

    By Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky  February 24, 2023
    Exile

    How Syrian Writer Khaled Khalifa Navigates Exile Abroad and At Home

    By Alfred J. Naddaff  July 18, 2023
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