• On Translation

    Conversations

    This Year’s Man Booker International Winner Has a Favorite For Next Year…

    By Jennifer Croft  May 25, 2018
    Criticism

    How Do We Judge Translations?

    By Kate Briggs  April 19, 2018
    Feature

    In Praise of the Near Impossible-to-Translate Novel

    By Veronica Esposito  April 16, 2018
    Excerpts

    On the Rise—and Cost—of the African Novel in English

    By Mukoma Wa Ngugi  April 9, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Why Are There Two Distinct Ways of Writing Norwegian?

    By Jessica Furseth  March 19, 2018
    Criticism

    The Tragedies of Aeschylus Are Truly Timeless

    By Ismail Kadare  February 26, 2018
    Essay

    The Political Power of Translation

    By Chenxin Jiang  January 8, 2018
    Essay

    Why I Gave Homer a Contemporary Voice in the Odyssey

    By Emily Wilson  December 19, 2017
    Conversations

    Meeting the Perfect Translator for My Book

    By Michael Frank  November 27, 2017
    Essay

    How a German Writer Made Peace with the Imprecision of English

    By Emanuel Bergmann  November 17, 2017
    Translation

    Languages Cannot Be Assimilated or Colonized, for They Contain Multitudes

    By Lauren Elkin  November 17, 2017
    Deep Dive

    What We Can Learn From Multiple Translations of the Same Poem

    By Martha Collins  November 13, 2017
    Essay

    Haruki Murakami on His Favorite Young Novelist: Mieko Kawakami

    By Haruki Murakami  October 4, 2017
    Spotlight

    The Future of New Writing: Introducing Freeman’s, Issue Four

    By John Freeman  September 19, 2017
    Conversations

    Why We Need to Translate More Women Writers

    By Literary Hub  August 30, 2017
    Translation

    On Living, and Thinking, in Two Languages at Once

    By Camille Bordas  August 11, 2017
    Craft

    The Trick to Translating Rhythm, Tone, and Slang

    By Lisa Dillman  June 9, 2017
    Translation

    The Making of a Tireless Literary Translator

    By Nathan Scott McNamara  March 29, 2017
    Craft

    Julio Cortázar Teaches a Class on His Own Short Story

    By Julio Cortazar  March 28, 2017
    Translation

    Jhumpa Lahiri on the Compulsion to Translate Domenico Starnone

    By Jhumpa Lahiri  March 7, 2017
    Deep Dive

    On Dracula’s Lost Icelandic Sister Text

    By Hans Corneel de Roos  February 6, 2017
    Translation

    Reuniting Two Halves of a Long-Lost Alexandre Dumas Novel

    By Lawrence Ellsworth  January 9, 2017
    Poets

    How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neruda’s Lost Poems

    By Forrest Gander  November 23, 2016
    Essay

    The Bolaño Effect: Latin American Literature in Translation

    By Nathan Scott McNamara  November 18, 2016
    Translation

    10 Japanese Books by Women We’d Love to See in English

    By Allison Markin Powell  November 10, 2016
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