On Translation

In Words and Beyond Them: Jane Hirshfield on the Transformative Art of Translation

“The act of translating opens the psyche’s innermost rooms to the unknown.”

 
By Jane Hirshfield  March 18, 2024
On Translation

Caught Between Zodiacs: A Capricorn Daughter Remembers Her Translator Father

By Grace Loh Prasad  March 8, 2024
On Translation

Translating Race: Bruna Dantas Lobato on Jeferson Tenório’s The Dark Side of Skin

By Bruna Dantas Lobato  February 14, 2024
On Translation

Playing With Words: Heather Cleary on the Pleasures of Translating the Unfamiliar

By Heather Cleary  December 14, 2023
On Translation

Consider the Words: On Translating Infinite Jest into Farsi

By Moeen Farrokhi  November 1, 2023
On Translation

Fear of Indirect Contact: Todd Portnowitz on Translating Jhumpa Lahiri

By Todd Portnowitz  October 10, 2023
On Translation

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

By Douglas J. Weatherford  September 27, 2023
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
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

By Tim Mohr  May 15, 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
On Translation

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

By Lawrence Venuti  April 5, 2023
On Translation

Every Writer Should Learn How to Translate

By Kristen Renee Miller  March 20, 2023
On Translation

Two of the Best Translators in the Business Are Married (to Each Other) and Up For the Same Literary Award

By Jonny Diamond  February 8, 2023
On Translation

On Translation and the (Temporary) Inheritance of Trauma

By Yardenne Greenspan  January 4, 2023
On Translation

Why Turgenev Remains One of the Most Important Russian Writers (And Why You Should Read the Constance Garnett Translation)

By Josh Billings  December 19, 2022
On Translation

Translating in Tandem: A Reading List of Collaborative Translated Literature

By Daniel Hahn and Lisa Dillman  September 27, 2022
On Translation

Jhumpa Lahiri on Michael F. Moore’s Translation of Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed

By Jhumpa Lahiri  September 13, 2022
On Translation

Do We Need a Support Group? How Translation Can—and Should—Be a Collective Effort

By Michele Hutchison  September 8, 2022
On Translation

Breaking Down the Translation Pyramid: On Translating Dhumketu’s Pioneering Short Stories from Gujarati

By Jenny Bhatt  August 1, 2022
On Translation

What Only Musicians and Translators Know

By Jessica Sequeira  July 20, 2022
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