Vive the <em>erotic far left!</em> Why Violette Leduc’s <em>The Taxi</em> needs a new translation.

Vive the erotic far left! Why Violette Leduc’s The Taxi needs a new translation.

By Jonny Diamond | April 7, 2021

Translating Brodsky: On the Undeniable Legacy of George L. Kline

Translating Brodsky: On the Undeniable Legacy of George L. Kline

Cynthia L. Haven Celebrates the Life and Work of an Unsung Translator and Intellectual

By Cynthia L. Haven | April 5, 2021

From <em>The Blacksmith’s Daughter</em> by Selim Özdoğan

From The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Selim Özdoğan

Translated by Ayça Türkoğlu and Katy Derbyshire

By Lit Hub Excerpts | April 2, 2021

On the 15-Year Journey to Translating Selim Özdoğan’s <em>The Blacksmith’s Daughter</em>

On the 15-Year Journey to Translating Selim Özdoğan’s The Blacksmith’s Daughter

A Conversation Between Katy Derbyshire and Ayça Türkoğlu

By Literary Hub | April 2, 2021

Have Italian Scholars Figured Out the Identity of Elena Ferrante?

Have Italian Scholars Figured Out the Identity of Elena Ferrante?

Elisa Sotgiu on Reading Gender and Class in One of the Great Literary Mysteries of Our Time

By Elisa Sotgiu | March 31, 2021

Ilan Stavans on Sympathy, Eroticism, and the Practice of Revision in Translation

Ilan Stavans on Sympathy, Eroticism, and the Practice of Revision in Translation

The Author of Selected Translations In Conversation with Peter Cole

By Peter Cole | March 26, 2021

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Power and Control: On the Very Rare Case of a Male Witch’s Execution

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How Translation Brought Me Home to Tunisia

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Lara Vergnaud Navigates Yamen Manai's The Ardent Swarm

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How a Poetry Collection Masquerading as Buddhist Scripture Nearly Duped the Literary World

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”The lioness’s roars of the ancient nuns have been muffled into sweet new-agey purring.”

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How to Translate a Journey Without a Destination

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

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On Translating Poems While Riding the Metro in Rome

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Damiano Abeni: Transforming Texts as a Performing Art

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

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

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On Translating the Little Known Italian Novel That Anticipated the Anthropocene

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Frederika Randall Considers the Life and Solitude of Guido Morselli

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