How to Translate a Journey Without a Destination

How to Translate a Journey Without a Destination

Translator Will Schutt on Finding the Voices of a Father and Son

By Will Schutt | January 12, 2021

On Translating Poems While Riding the Metro in Rome

On Translating Poems While Riding the Metro in Rome

Damiano Abeni: Transforming Texts as a Performing Art

By Damiano Abeni | December 14, 2020

The Challenges of Translating Jean Daive’s Memoir <br>on Paul Celan

The Challenges of Translating Jean Daive’s Memoir 
on Paul Celan

Robert Kaufman and Philip Gerard Consider the Texture of Language, Poetics, and Linguistic Dispossession

By Robert Kaufman and Philip Gerard | December 9, 2020

On Translating the Little Known Italian Novel That Anticipated the Anthropocene

On Translating the Little Known Italian Novel That Anticipated the Anthropocene

Frederika Randall Considers the Life and Solitude of Guido Morselli

By Frederika Randall | December 7, 2020

How Sigrid Undset Brought a Medieval Norwegian<br> Epic to Life

How Sigrid Undset Brought a Medieval Norwegian
Epic to Life

Translator Tiina Nunnally on the Making of Olav Audunssøn

By Tiina Nunnally | November 12, 2020

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

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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

On Rendering My Own Novel Into Spanish

On Rendering My Own Novel Into Spanish

Carolina De Robertis: "Spanish is the language of my bones."

By Carolina De Robertis | September 3, 2020

Inside the Intricate Translation Process for a Murakami Novel

Inside the Intricate Translation Process for a Murakami Novel

David Karashima on Hard-Boiled Wonderland and
the End of the World

By David Karashima | September 2, 2020

Carlos Fonseca on Harnessing the Literary Power of Tedium

Carlos Fonseca on Harnessing the Literary Power of Tedium

The Author of Natural History in Conversation with Juan Toledo

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

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