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The Author of Natural History in Conversation with Juan Toledo

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Reading Women on Contemporary Japanese Writers in Translation

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Encountering Hervé Guibert's Anti-Utopian Men

Encountering Hervé Guibert's Anti-Utopian Men

Jeffrey Zuckerman on Translating the Author's Visceral Autofictions

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Finding a Mother Tongue

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Mariana Oliver on the Migrations and Nostalgias of Emine Sevgi Özdamar

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Dola de Jong's Novel of Resistance in Love and War

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Kristen Gehrman on a Controversial Postwar Romance

By Kristen Gehrman | May 18, 2020

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The First State-Approved North Korean Novel in English

Esther Kim In Conversation with Friend Translator Immanuel Kim

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