• On Translation

    Ballet

    Page Turns: On Literary Translations on the American Ballet Theater’s Summer Stage

    Emma Golden Considers Balletic Language

     
    By Emma Golden  August 16, 2024
    Queer History

    The First Lesbian: How Sappho’s Poetry Paved the Way for Modern Queer Literature

    By Daisy Dunn  July 30, 2024
    Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry

    From the Trenches: New Work by Ukrainian Poet and Soldier Artur Dron 

    By Literary Hub  July 29, 2024
    On Translation

    Bridging the Gaps: On Writing and Revising a Novel in Two Languages

    By Julia Malye  June 21, 2024
    Languages

    Dreaming in English of Dreaming in Kashmiri: What You Can Only Express in One Language

    By Priyanka Mattoo  June 18, 2024
    In Conversation

    Camille Bordas on What Stand-Up Comedy Can Teach Writing Workshops About Growing Thicker Skin

    By Adam Ehrlich Sachs  June 13, 2024
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    craft advice

    Between Languages: Yukiko Tominaga on Writing in English and Japanese

    By Yukiko Tominaga  May 31, 2024
    On Translation

    Literary Catharsis: Jenna Tang on Translating Lin Yi-Han’s Only Novel, Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise

    By Jenna Tang  May 30, 2024
    On Translation

    The Special Challenges of Attempting a New Translation of Kafka

    By Mark Harman  May 28, 2024
    On Translation

    Bringing Felice Bauer to Life in Magdaléna Platzová’s Life After Kafka

    Alex Zucker on the Importance of Style and Voice in Literary Translation

    By Alex Zucker  August 9, 2024
    Norwegian Literature

    How Jon Fosse Teaches Us to Acknowledge Our Own Vulnerability

    By Sarah Cameron Sunde  May 6, 2024
    On Translation

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

    By Jane Hirshfield  April 9, 2024
    Baseball

    Lost in Translation: Unpacking the Shohei Ohtani Scandal

    By Emily Nemens  April 8, 2024
    On Translation

    How Translating a Novel About Emily Dickinson Got Rhonda Mullins Through the Pandemic

    On Dominique Fortier's “Pale Shadows,” the Frictionlessness of Death, and More

    By Rhonda Mullins  March 18, 2024
    On Translation

    Caught Between Zodiacs: A Capricorn Daughter Remembers Her Translator Father

    By Grace Loh Prasad  March 8, 2024
    Kashmir

    Kalpana Raina on Translating Her Uncle Hari Krishna Kaul’s Stories of Kashmir

    By Kalpana Raina  March 6, 2024
    Bookselling

    Books for Indie Booksellers: On the Craft of Selling Books

    By Rachael Conrad  February 23, 2024
    On Translation

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

    “I let the racialized language live in the novel as it ought to, to stand as is.”

    By Bruna Dantas Lobato  February 14, 2024
    Palestinian Literature

    Blood on All Our Hands: Gunnhild Øyehaug on Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail

    By Gunnhild Øyehaug  February 12, 2024
    Poets in Conversation

    Wendy Call and Shook on the Power of Titles, Decolonization, and Translating Poems in Iterations

    By Literary Hub  January 8, 2024
    On Translation

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

    By Heather Cleary  December 14, 2023
    literary criticism

    Canterbury Tales Down the Centuries: How Each Era Has Reinvented Chaucer

    Marion Turner on the Dramatically Different Ways We Have Read The Canterbury Tales

    By Marion Turner  December 11, 2023
    Palestinian Literature

    Where is Mosab Abu Toha? A Poem from Gaza in 22 Languages

    By Mosab Abu Toha  November 21, 2023
    In Conversation

    Meet the 2023 National Book Award Finalists

    By Emily Temple  November 8, 2023
    On Translation

    The Secret Master: On Translating the Forgotten Argentine Writer Ángel Bonomini

    By Jordan Landsman  May 16, 2024
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