Lily Meyer

Lily Meyer is a writer, translator, and critic. She is a contributing writer at the Atlantic, and her translations include Claudia Ulloa Donoso's story collections Little Bird and Ice for Martians. She lives in Washington, D.C.

The Language of American Jewishness: On Delmore Schwartz, Grace Paley, and the Duties of Freedom

“I want American Jews to count ourselves in; to include ourselves in the bad parts of American history as part of building the good.”

April 2, 2024 By Lily Meyer

The Mind-Expanding Practice of Translating Claudia Ulloa Donoso

Lily Meyer on the Transporting Absurdity of Fiction

July 15, 2021 By Lily Meyer

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