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The Hungarian Author Who Foresaw the Future of Nationalism

The Hungarian Author Who Foresaw the Future of Nationalism

Considering Krisztina Tóth's Pointed Case for Open Borders

By Stephanie Newman | October 17, 2019

Karl Ove Knausgaard on the Writing of Jon Fosse

Karl Ove Knausgaard on the Writing of Jon Fosse

Thoughts on One of Norway's Great Writers, Just in Time
for Nobel Season

By Karl Ove Knausgaard | September 30, 2019

In a Sudan Where Literature is Often Smuggled, the Short Story is a Perfect Form

In a Sudan Where Literature is Often Smuggled, the Short Story is a Perfect Form

Marcia Lynx Qualey on the Rise of a Complex, Capacious Literary Genre

By Marcia Lynx Qualey | September 27, 2019

Of Sisterly Bonds and Translating the Untranslatable

Of Sisterly Bonds and Translating the Untranslatable

From Jennifer Croft's New Memoir, Homesick

By Jennifer Croft | September 17, 2019

Jhumpa Lahiri on Editing an Anthology of Italian Fiction

Jhumpa Lahiri on Editing an Anthology of Italian Fiction

The Editor of The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories on the Need for More Literature in Translation

By Jhumpa Lahiri | September 10, 2019

Tracking Down My Literary Idol to a San Francisco Commune

Tracking Down My Literary Idol to a San Francisco Commune

On Translating Irving Rosenthal's Deeply Weird
and Wonderful Sheeper

By Philippe Aronson | August 28, 2019

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Belonging is Not a Language You Can Learn

By Brittani Sonnenberg | August 19, 2019

The Bittersweet Feeling of Reconnecting with a Forgotten Language

By Susan Harlan | August 12, 2019

Welcome to Women in Translation Month!

By Aaron Robertson | August 1, 2019

On One of the Great Dutch Novels of Social Reform

On One of the Great Dutch Novels of Social Reform

How Eduard Douwes Dekker's Max Havelaar Led to a Revolution

By Pramoedya Ananta Toer | July 25, 2019

The Poetic Pleasures and Pains We Can Only Express in Dutch

The Poetic Pleasures and Pains We Can Only Express in Dutch

Sadiqa de Meijer on How Landscapes Change as Our Language Does

By Sadiqa de Meijer | June 25, 2019

The Anti-Capitalist Power of Jean de La Ville de Mirmont's Fiction

The Anti-Capitalist Power of Jean de La Ville de Mirmont's Fiction

André Naffis-Sahely on His New Translation of a Long-Neglected Existentialist Novella

By André Naffis-Sahely | June 21, 2019

On Fact, Fiction, and Translating Lena Andersson

On Fact, Fiction, and Translating Lena Andersson

Saskia Vogel Profiles the Author of Acts of Infidelity

By Saskia Vogel | May 23, 2019

On Translating Mario Levrero, <br>The Kafka of Uruguay

On Translating Mario Levrero,
The Kafka of Uruguay

“It’s a mistake to expect literature to come only from literary sources.”

By Annie McDermott | May 15, 2019

Illustrating the Visual Illusions of Walter Benjamin's Mind

Illustrating the Visual Illusions of Walter Benjamin's Mind

On Wandering Through—and Recreating—a Writer's Marginalia

By Frances Cannon | May 9, 2019

Kanako Nishi on Writing Gender, Power, and the Pain of Others

Kanako Nishi on Writing Gender, Power, and the Pain of Others

"I believe that lines should be capable of changing shape in many ways."

By Allison Markin Powell | May 8, 2019

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