• On Translation

    Short story writers

    “A Few Moments After Midnight”

    By Hisham Bustani  May 12, 2016
    Feature

    New Arabic Fiction: 5 Contemporary Short Stories

    By Literary Hub  May 12, 2016
    Essay

    Beyond The Thousand and One Nights: Contemporary Arabic Literature

    By Youssef Rahka  May 12, 2016
    Translation

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

    By Katy Derbyshire  May 12, 2016
    Essay

    Anton Chekhov: A Post-Post-Modernist Way Ahead of His Time

    By Peter Constantine  May 9, 2016
    Translation

    The 10 Russian Literary Heroines You Should Know

    By Guillermo Erades  May 5, 2016
    Translation

    On the Quest to Write in a Third Language

    By Amara Lakhous  May 4, 2016
    Excerpts

    The Dove’s Necklace

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  May 2, 2016
    Translation

    Hamlet, Translated into Spanglish

    By Ilan Stavans  April 25, 2016
    Essay

    Why My Novel Uses Untranslated Chinese

    By Esmé Weijun Wang  April 12, 2016
    Essay

    Writing While Translating

    By Idra Novey  February 25, 2016
    Translation

    “Seriously Funny” German Literature. Seriously.

    By Charles Shafaieh  February 24, 2016
    Short story writers

    Six Great Contemporary Writers Working in German

    By Literary Hub  February 24, 2016
    Excerpts

    The Vegetarian

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  February 9, 2016
    Excerpts

    The Pirate

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 29, 2016
    Essay

    Translating the Secret Language of War

    By Matthew J. Hefti  January 28, 2016
    Excerpts

    Ostend: Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 22, 2016
    Excerpts

    The Core of the Sun

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 21, 2016
    Excerpts

    The Deep Sea Diver’s Syndrome

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 19, 2016
    Conversations

    How a Mother-Daughter Translation Team Makes it Work

    By Martha Tennent and Maruxa Relano  January 13, 2016
    What to Read

    Five Finnish Writers You Should Know

    By Johanna Sinisalo  January 8, 2016
    History

    A Brief, Wondrous History of Arabic Literature

    By Suheil Bushrui and James M. Malarkey  December 11, 2015
    Essay

    Are We Different People in Different Languages?

    By Ana Menéndez  November 19, 2015
    Essay

    On Translating an “Untranslatable” Book

    By Lisa Hayden  November 6, 2015
    Feature

    Translating a Book in Order to Save It

    By André Naffis-Sahely  November 4, 2015
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