• On Translation

    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
    Essay

    When An Author You Translate Gets Death Threats

    By Jennifer Croft  November 2, 2015
    Excerpts

    Translator’s Blues

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 26, 2015
    Essay

    Prostitutes, Pimps, Pushers: How to Translate a ‘Jazz’ Novel

    By Roland Glasser  October 15, 2015
    Politics

    The First Democratic Party Debate: A Spinglish-English Translation

    By Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf  October 15, 2015
    Criticism

    Kenzaburo Oe Finds a Hero in Huckleberry Finn

    By Kenzaburo Oe  October 8, 2015
    What to Read

    Ten Great Books With Their Own Languages

    By Stephen Sparks  September 1, 2015
    Criticism

    A History of Encounters with The Lover

    By Laura van den Berg  August 25, 2015
    Close Reading

    Sex, Feminism, and the Lost Genius of Violette Leduc

    By Tom Roberge  July 17, 2015
    Excerpts

    Hush!

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 15, 2015
    Excerpts

    The Top-Secret Cinema of Manuel Puig

    By Javier Montes  July 13, 2015
    Essay

    The Ballad of Steinbjørn Jacobsen

    By Eric Wilson  July 1, 2015
    Essay

    Bohumil Hrabal: Of Beer, Whores, and Samizdat

    By Joshua Cohen  June 30, 2015
    Excerpts

    Haruki Murakami: The Moment I Became a Novelist

    By Haruki Murakami  June 25, 2015
    What to Read

    Five Quebecois Writers You Should Know

    By Steven Beattie  June 24, 2015
    Conversation

    The Quiet Rebels of Russian Translation

    By Paris Review  June 22, 2015
    Criticism

    Poetry as a Second Language

    By Michael Dumanis  June 1, 2015
    Criticism

    Sergio Pitol: Mexico’s Total Writer

    By Daniel Saldaña París  May 19, 2015
    What to Read

    Five Great Norwegian Writers Not Named Knausgaard

    By Ane Farsethas  May 19, 2015
    Conversation

    Norway’s Greatest Living Writer is Actually Dag Solstad

    By Ane Farsethas  May 18, 2015
    Criticism

    Resurrecting An Extinct Novel: On Rereading ‘Alexandrian Summer’

    By Yitzhak Gormezano Goren  May 12, 2015
    What to Read

    Five Great Contemporary Mexican Writers

    By Will Evans  May 5, 2015
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