• On Translation

    Women Writers

    Writer, Resistance Fighter, and Kafka’s First Translator: Milena Jesenská, Forgotten No More

    Christine Estima on Breathing Fictional Life Into a Long-Overlooked Literary Figure

     
    By Christine Estima  September 12, 2025
    Gaza

    To Write Poetry After Gaza is a Necessity

    By Huda Fakhreddine  August 28, 2025
    Translation

    On Bringing the Novels of Mizuki Tsujimura to English Readers

    By Yuki Tejima  August 26, 2025
    On Translation

    Blurring Genre, Gender: The Rich Challenges of Translating Kim de l’Horizon’s Wild Fiction

    By Jamie Lee Searle  August 25, 2025
    On Translation

    On Discovering My Aunt Eleni’s Place in Queer Greek Literature

    By Natalie Bakopoulos  August 21, 2025
    On Translation

    Journeying in the Other Direction: On Bringing a Great Tamil Writer to English Readers

    By Priyamvada Ramkumar  August 18, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    On Translation

    The Case for Renaming Kafka’s Metamorphosis as The Transformation

    By Mark Harman  August 8, 2025
    Science fiction

    On the Joy of Building a Sci-Fi World with a Korean Inflection

    By Elaine U. Cho  August 5, 2025
    literary criticism

    “If God Were Like Chekhov, I Would Be Consoled.” On the Privileges of Misery

    By Philip Metres  July 30, 2025
    Autofiction

    Lalla Romano Was Writing Autofiction Before It Existed

    On the Late Italian Writer’s Masterpiece, “In Farthest Seas”

    By Brian Robert Moore  September 5, 2025
    On Translation

    Cruising the Holy Highway: Mary Jo Bang Journeys Through Dante’s “Paradiso”

    By Mary Jo Bang  July 9, 2025
    Untranslation

    No Translation, No Problem:
    The Joys of Reading a Book Containing Multiple Languages

    By Rachel Ashcroft  July 7, 2025
    Latin American Literature

    Remembering the Great Manuel Puig, Cosmopolitan Chronicler of the Everyday

    By Suzanne Jill Levine  June 30, 2025
    Languages

    The Blessing of a Hybrid Brain: On the Joy of Writing in Two Languages

    Tatiana de Rosnay Unpacks the Lines Between Translating and Crafting Bilingually

    By Tatiana de Rosnay  June 9, 2025
    In Conversation

    Spring Ulmer on Political Poetry, Personification, and Translating as Gardening

    By Literary Hub  May 27, 2025
    Translation

    On Translating Your Own Novel *Back* Into Your Mother Tongue

    By Jessica Powers  May 16, 2025
    Publishing

    On the Latest Threat to Literary Culture’s Fragile Ecosystem: Donald Trump

    By Maris Kreizman  May 8, 2025
    On Translation

    Is Translating Your Own Writing Really “Translation”?

    Sibila Petlevski: “I have no pretension to speak on behalf of nature, but rather I let the green of the leaves speak for me.”

    By Sibila Petlevski  April 21, 2025
    On Translation

    The Future Will be Translated:
    A Manifesto in Three Lies

    By Chloe Garcia Roberts  April 16, 2025
    On Translation

    The Second Life: On Translating Literature Into Farsi and Life into English

    By Moeen Farrokhi  April 11, 2025
    Language

    Catharsis, Harpies, Harmatia, and More: Natasha Pulley on Her Favorite Greek Words

    By Natasha Pulley  March 19, 2025
    On Translation

    Race Made Radioactive: How Yuko Tsushima Fused Multiracial Identity and Military Occupation

    Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda on Translating the Nuclear Novel “Wildcat Dome”

    By Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda  March 18, 2025
    Russia

    Invasions, Empires, Political Bromances: Five Nonfiction Books That Explain Modern Russia

    By Charles Hecker  March 4, 2025
    Chinese Literature

    On Being Mentored by a Chinese Woman Writer Who Lived a Thousand Years Ago

    By Wendy Chen  February 25, 2025
    On Poetry

    Margaret Busby on Jazz, Africa, and the Endurance of Jayne Cortez’s Disruptive Poetry

    By Literary Hub  July 28, 2025
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