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Ways of Connecting: On Writing That Marries the Psychological, the Personal and the Political

Ways of Connecting: On Writing That Marries the Psychological, the Personal and the Political

Faraaz Mahomed Discusses His Debut Novel Mother/Land With Damon Galgut

By Faraaz Mahomed and Damon Galgut | August 21, 2026

Considering the Many Forms a Family Can Take in Japanese Literature

Considering the Many Forms a Family Can Take in Japanese Literature

Laurel Taylor on Maiko Seo’s Someone to Cook For

By Laurel Taylor | August 6, 2026

What Happens When Literary Passion Leads to Physical Illness?

What Happens When Literary Passion Leads to Physical Illness?

Max Lawton In Praise of Writing and Translating That Consumes Us To the Fullest

By Max Lawton | July 28, 2026

How Translating Korean Literature Made Me a Better Fiction Writer

How Translating Korean Literature Made Me a Better Fiction Writer

Lizzie Buehler on Incorporating Techniques From Literary Translation Into Her Writing Practice

By Lizzie Buehler | July 28, 2026

To Think the Unthinkable: On the Work of Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska

To Think the Unthinkable: On the Work of Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska

Clare Cavanagh: “The bits and pieces matter; they are the stuff that make up our lives, that make up life as such.”

By Clare Cavanagh | July 16, 2026

Can ChatGPT Produce a Version of Proust Worth Reading?

Can ChatGPT Produce a Version of Proust Worth Reading?

Bryan Charles on the Slow But Steady Encroachment of Artificial Intelligence Into Literary Translation

By Bryan Alistair Charles | July 7, 2026

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On the Literary Afterlife of Japan’s First Working Woman Writer

By Bryan Karetnyk | May 28, 2026

Translator Beware: On the Myth of the Finicky English Reader

By Anton Hur | May 18, 2026

A New Language: On Primo Levi’s Translation of Kafka

A New Language: On Primo Levi’s Translation of Kafka

Maïa Hruska Considers the Act of Writing and Translating After Auschwitz

By Maïa Hruska | May 13, 2026

Mother Tongues: How Family History Plays a Part in Language and Translation

Mother Tongues: How Family History Plays a Part in Language and Translation

Chenxin Jiang: “Which is my mother tongue and which an other tongue?”

By Chenxin Jiang | April 29, 2026

A Linguistic and Philosophical Tapestry: Suchitra Ramachandran on Jeyamohan’s <em>The Abyss</em>

A Linguistic and Philosophical Tapestry: Suchitra Ramachandran on Jeyamohan’s The Abyss

“Jeyamohan stages his fundamental inquiry into the nature of existence and the meaning of values that runs through all his novels.”

By Suchitra Ramachandran | April 16, 2026

Writing in the Interim Language: Jhumpa Lahiri and Chiara Barzini in Conversation

Writing in the Interim Language: Jhumpa Lahiri and Chiara Barzini in Conversation

On Seeking Literature’s Third Spaces

By Chiara Barzini | April 14, 2026

Lisa Lee on Translating an Emotion

Lisa Lee on Translating an Emotion

“In writing toward what I didn’t know, I rediscovered something I had largely forgotten.”

By Lisa Lee | April 3, 2026

A Resonant Silence: Heather Cleary on Translating María Ospina’s <em>Only a Little While Here</em>

A Resonant Silence: Heather Cleary on Translating María Ospina’s Only a Little While Here

"There is a powerful form of resistance to be found in lingering with the unfamiliar..."

By Heather Cleary | March 31, 2026

Langston Hughes: Novelist, Poet, Activist and... Translator

Langston Hughes: Novelist, Poet, Activist and... Translator

Ricardo Wilson II on the Writer’s Experience in Mexico and His Struggle to Bring Mexican and Cuban Writers to American Audiences

By Ricardo Wilson II | March 27, 2026

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