Tracy K. Smith on Translating<br> the World of Yi Lei

Tracy K. Smith on Translating
the World of Yi Lei

"She was and remains a revolutionary voice"

By Tracy K. Smith | November 11, 2020

WATCH: Writers and Translators on What It Means to Have a 'Mother Tongue'

WATCH: Writers and Translators on What It Means to Have a 'Mother Tongue'

From Motherless Tongues, Multiple Belongings, Part of PEN's Translating the Future

By Literary Hub | October 23, 2020

The Spontaneous Quarantine Writing that Became a Hit in Japan

The Spontaneous Quarantine Writing that Became a Hit in Japan

Barry Yourgrau on the Story Behind His Pandemic Collection Botticelli

By Barry Yourgrau | October 16, 2020

On Reengaging with Franz Kafka's Astonishing Worlds

On Reengaging with Franz Kafka's Astonishing Worlds

Gregory Ariail Considers the "Lost" and Newly Translated Fragments

By Gregory Ariail | October 1, 2020

In Vigdis Hjorth's Norway, Perfect Happiness Amounts to Complacency

In Vigdis Hjorth's Norway, Perfect Happiness Amounts to Complacency

Charlotte Barslund on "A Social Democracy Fraying at the Edges"

By Charlotte Barslund | September 21, 2020

How the Art—and Love—of Translation Relies on Intuition

How the Art—and Love—of Translation Relies on Intuition

Anne Posten on What It's Like to Fall Hard for a Text

By Anne Posten | September 16, 2020

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On Rendering My Own Novel Into Spanish

By Carolina De Robertis | September 3, 2020

Inside the Intricate Translation Process for a Murakami Novel

By David Karashima | September 2, 2020

Carlos Fonseca on Harnessing the Literary Power of Tedium

By Juan Toledo | August 28, 2020

<em>Reading Women</em> on Contemporary Japanese Writers in Translation

Reading Women on Contemporary Japanese Writers in Translation

A Deep Dive Into Yoko Ogawa and Mieko Kawakami

By Reading Women | August 26, 2020

Encountering Hervé Guibert's Anti-Utopian Men

Encountering Hervé Guibert's Anti-Utopian Men

Jeffrey Zuckerman on Translating the Author's Visceral Autofictions

By Jeffrey Zuckerman | June 22, 2020

Finding a Mother Tongue

Finding a Mother Tongue

Mariana Oliver on the Migrations and Nostalgias of Emine Sevgi Özdamar

By Mariana Oliver | May 27, 2020

Dola de Jong's Novel of Resistance in Love and War

Dola de Jong's Novel of Resistance in Love and War

Kristen Gehrman on a Controversial Postwar Romance

By Kristen Gehrman | May 18, 2020

The First State-Approved North Korean Novel in English

The First State-Approved North Korean Novel in English

Esther Kim In Conversation with Friend Translator Immanuel Kim

By Esther Kim | May 13, 2020

Sara Mesa's Novels of Ambiguous, Twisted Power

Sara Mesa's Novels of Ambiguous, Twisted Power

Katie Whittemore Interviews the Author of Four by Four

By Katie Whittemore | May 11, 2020

Life As It Really Is: Translator Richard Pevear on the Stories of Chekhov

Life As It Really Is: Translator Richard Pevear on the Stories of Chekhov

"In art, as in life, there is nothing accidental.”

By Richard Pevear | April 14, 2020

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