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Translating Tove Ditlevsen: ‘It Is Not the Voice of Someone Who Is Suffering’

Translating Tove Ditlevsen: ‘It Is Not the Voice of Someone Who Is Suffering’

Michael Favala Goldman in Conversation with Catherine Lacey on Well-Versed

By Well-Versed | March 26, 2021

Betina González on Economic Precarity, End Times, and<br> Killer Deer

Betina González on Economic Precarity, End Times, and
Killer Deer

The Author of American Delirium Speaks With Yuri Herrera

By Yuri Herrera | March 8, 2021

When a Young Literary Star Refuses the Spotlight

When a Young Literary Star Refuses the Spotlight

Simon Leser on the Curious Case of Joseph Andras

By Simon Leser | February 26, 2021

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

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

Kathryn Nuernberger Considers Society's Failure to Protect Victims, Then and Now

By Kathryn Nuernberger | February 19, 2021

How Translation Brought Me Home to Tunisia

How Translation Brought Me Home to Tunisia

Lara Vergnaud Navigates Yamen Manai's The Ardent Swarm

By Lara Vergnaud | February 8, 2021

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

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

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

By An Tran | February 3, 2021

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How to Translate a Journey Without a Destination

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On Translating Poems While Riding the Metro in Rome

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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

By Frederika Randall | December 7, 2020

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

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Translator Tiina Nunnally on the Making of Olav Audunssøn

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Tracy K. Smith on Translating<br> the World of Yi Lei

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"She was and remains a revolutionary voice"

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WATCH: Writers and Translators on What It Means to Have a 'Mother Tongue'

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From Motherless Tongues, Multiple Belongings, Part of PEN's Translating the Future

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The Spontaneous Quarantine Writing that Became a Hit in Japan

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Barry Yourgrau on the Story Behind His Pandemic Collection Botticelli

By Barry Yourgrau | October 16, 2020

On Reengaging with Franz Kafka's Astonishing Worlds

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Gregory Ariail Considers the "Lost" and Newly Translated Fragments

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In Vigdis Hjorth's Norway, Perfect Happiness Amounts to Complacency

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