Life As It Really Is: Translator Richard Pevear on the Stories of Chekhov

Life As It Really Is: Translator Richard Pevear on the Stories of Chekhov

"In art, as in life, there is nothing accidental.”

By Richard Pevear | April 14, 2020

When Sharon Dodua Otoo, Relatively New to Writing in German, Won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize

When Sharon Dodua Otoo, Relatively New to Writing in German, Won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize

In Conversation with Idra Novey About German Breakfast Culture,
Mansplaining, and Literary Tension in Translation

By Idra Novey | March 4, 2020

<em>The Art of War</em> is Actually a Manual on How to Avoid It

The Art of War is Actually a Manual on How to Avoid It

Translator Michael Nylan on Sun Tzu's Oft Misunderstood Classic

By Michael Nylan | January 16, 2020

Why We Love <br>Untranslatable Words

Why We Love
Untranslatable Words

David Shariatmadari on the Allure of Undefinable Concepts

By David Shariatmadari | January 8, 2020

What would an AI text generator do with the first lines of literature's greatest novels?

What would an AI text generator do with the first lines of literature's greatest novels?

By Jonny Diamond | November 12, 2019

The Woman Who Brought Dostoevsky and Chekhov to English Readers

The Woman Who Brought Dostoevsky and Chekhov to English Readers

Sara Wheeler on Constance Garnett and the Problem
of Era-Specific Translations

By Sara Wheeler | November 12, 2019

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Rosalie Knecht and Idra Novey on Translation, Writing Tension, and Literary 'Retrenchment'

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Karl Ove Knausgaard on the Writing of Jon Fosse

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In a Sudan Where Literature is Often Smuggled, the Short Story is a Perfect Form

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Marcia Lynx Qualey on the Rise of a Complex, Capacious Literary Genre

By Marcia Lynx Qualey | September 27, 2019

Of Sisterly Bonds and Translating the Untranslatable

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From Jennifer Croft's New Memoir, Homesick

By Jennifer Croft | September 17, 2019

Jhumpa Lahiri on Editing an Anthology of Italian Fiction

Jhumpa Lahiri on Editing an Anthology of Italian Fiction

The Editor of The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories on the Need for More Literature in Translation

By Jhumpa Lahiri | September 10, 2019

Tracking Down My Literary Idol to a San Francisco Commune

Tracking Down My Literary Idol to a San Francisco Commune

On Translating Irving Rosenthal's Deeply Weird
and Wonderful Sheeper

By Philippe Aronson | August 28, 2019

Belonging is Not a Language You Can Learn

Belonging is Not a Language You Can Learn

On Translating a Childhood Between Five Countries

By Brittani Sonnenberg | August 19, 2019

The Bittersweet Feeling of Reconnecting with a Forgotten Language

The Bittersweet Feeling of Reconnecting with a Forgotten Language

Susan Harlan on Rekindling an Old Friendship in the City of Lights

By Susan Harlan | August 12, 2019

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