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Tarek Abi Samra on Stealing Kant From a Bookstore

Tarek Abi Samra on Stealing Kant From a Bookstore

“It appealed to me because it was the perfect encapsulation of an image of myself I was consciously trying to fashion.”

By Tarek Abi Samra, translated by Lina Mounzer | August 8, 2022

Breaking Down the Translation Pyramid: On Translating Dhumketu’s Pioneering Short Stories from Gujarati

Breaking Down the Translation Pyramid: On Translating Dhumketu’s Pioneering Short Stories from Gujarati

Jenny Bhatt Considers Gujarati Literary Culture and the Politics of Translation

By Jenny Bhatt | August 1, 2022

What Only Musicians and Translators Know

What Only Musicians and Translators Know

Jessica Sequeira on Transforming Emotion into Music and Words

By Jessica Sequeira | July 20, 2022

Amy B. Reid on Translating the Very Book She Needed to Read

Amy B. Reid on Translating the Very Book She Needed to Read

On Mutt-Lon's The Blunder

By Amy B. Reid | July 14, 2022

Rachel Careau on How Translating Roger Lewinter Helped Her Translate Colette

Rachel Careau on How Translating Roger Lewinter Helped Her Translate Colette

"I could tell Lewinter, they are not so very different after all."

By Rachel Careau | July 8, 2022

The Unnoticed Generation: How Russian Writers in Paris Grappled With the Complexities of Life Between the Wars

The Unnoticed Generation: How Russian Writers in Paris Grappled With the Complexities of Life Between the Wars

Bryan Karetnyk on Translating the Work of Yuri Felsen

By Bryan Karetnyk | June 27, 2022

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By Marina Manoukian | June 21, 2022

Why Is It I Keep Seeing the Same Painting Everywhere I Look?

By Gianluca Didino | June 17, 2022

Brazilian Rhythms, Queer Longing, and Caio Fernando Abreu: A Literary Playlist

Brazilian Rhythms, Queer Longing, and Caio Fernando Abreu: A Literary Playlist

Bruna Dantas Lobato on the Music That Helps Her Translate

By Bruna Dantas Lobato | June 17, 2022

Jhumpa Lahiri on Preserving the Multiplicity of Language

Jhumpa Lahiri on Preserving the Multiplicity of Language

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | June 15, 2022

On Jazmina Barrera’s <em>Linea Nigra</em> and the Untranslatable Experiences of Motherhood

On Jazmina Barrera’s Linea Nigra and the Untranslatable Experiences of Motherhood

Malwina Gudowska: “Language, like motherhood, lives on the body.”

By Malwina Gudowska | June 2, 2022

WATCH: Kyung-sook Shin in Conversation with Her Translator Anton Hur

WATCH: Kyung-sook Shin in Conversation with Her Translator Anton Hur

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By The Virtual Book Channel | May 26, 2022

Xu Xi on Living the Transnational Literary Life

Xu Xi on Living the Transnational Literary Life

“Life really isn’t stranger than fiction, but you have to keep reading, and rereading, to know that.”

By Xu Xi | May 23, 2022

Jhumpa Lahiri: Why Is Italo Calvino So Beloved Outside Italy?

Jhumpa Lahiri: Why Is Italo Calvino So Beloved Outside Italy?

On the Translatability and “Secret Essence” of Calvino’s Language

By Jhumpa Lahiri | May 19, 2022

The Russian War on Ukraine Has Always Been a War on Its Language

The Russian War on Ukraine Has Always Been a War on Its Language

Askold Melnyczuk on the Assault on a Country’s Literature

By Askold Melnyczuk | May 11, 2022

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