• On Translation

    On Translation

    The Case for Renaming Kafka’s Metamorphosis as The Transformation

    Mark Harman Digs into the History and Linguistic Choices of Translating an Uncanny Classic

     
    By Mark Harman  August 8, 2025
    literary criticism

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

    By Philip Metres  July 30, 2025
    On Poetry

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

    By Literary Hub  July 28, 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
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Languages

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

    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
    Science fiction

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

    Elaine U. Cho: “If you want to belong to the world, you’ll have to pick up on its lingo.”

    By Elaine U. Cho  August 5, 2025
    On Translation

    Is Translating Your Own Writing Really “Translation”?

    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

    The Author of “Hymn to Dionysus” Explores a Linguistic Venn Diagram of Meaning

    By Natasha Pulley  March 19, 2025
    On Translation

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

    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
    Italian Literature

    Antifascist, Feminist, Timeless: On Alba de Céspedes’s There’s No Turning Back

    Ann Goldstein: “Even if the world has changed, her characters’ struggles with becoming themselves continue to be familiar.”

    By Ann Goldstein  February 13, 2025
    Speculative fiction

    Inside the Climate Techno-Dystopia of Michel Nieva’s Dengue Boy

    By Rahul Bery  February 5, 2025
    Indian Literature

    What South Asia’s Literary Classics Reveal About Its Linguistic and Cultural Diversity

    By Ranjit Hoskote  January 31, 2025
    On Translation

    Feeling in Farsi, Writing in English:
    On Translating Your Life From One Language to Another

    By Sahar Delijani  January 14, 2025
    Poetry

    Snapshots in Verse: On Hannah Arendt’s Long-Lost Poems

    Samantha Rose Hill and Genese Grill in Conversation with Poets.org

    By Literary Hub  December 9, 2024
    Paperbacks

    Kaveh Akbar! Anthony Veasna So! Irreverent travel! 24 books out in paperback this December.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  December 2, 2024
    Poetry

    The Poet of the Revolution: Read Newly Translated Work by One of Egypt’s Most Prominent Poets, Mostafa Ibrahim

    By Literary Hub  November 12, 2024
    Publishing

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

    By Maris Kreizman  May 8, 2025
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