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

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

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

Of Sisterly Bonds and Translating the Untranslatable

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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Welcome to Women in Translation Month!

By Aaron Robertson | August 1, 2019

On One of the Great Dutch Novels of Social Reform

By Pramoedya Ananta Toer | July 25, 2019

The Poetic Pleasures and Pains We Can Only Express in Dutch

By Sadiqa de Meijer | June 25, 2019

The Anti-Capitalist Power of Jean de La Ville de Mirmont's Fiction

The Anti-Capitalist Power of Jean de La Ville de Mirmont's Fiction

André Naffis-Sahely on His New Translation of a Long-Neglected Existentialist Novella

By André Naffis-Sahely | June 21, 2019

On Fact, Fiction, and Translating Lena Andersson

On Fact, Fiction, and Translating Lena Andersson

Saskia Vogel Profiles the Author of Acts of Infidelity

By Saskia Vogel | May 23, 2019

On Translating Mario Levrero, <br>The Kafka of Uruguay

On Translating Mario Levrero,
The Kafka of Uruguay

“It’s a mistake to expect literature to come only from literary sources.”

By Annie McDermott | May 15, 2019

Illustrating the Visual Illusions of Walter Benjamin's Mind

Illustrating the Visual Illusions of Walter Benjamin's Mind

On Wandering Through—and Recreating—a Writer's Marginalia

By Frances Cannon | May 9, 2019

Kanako Nishi on Writing Gender, Power, and the Pain of Others

Kanako Nishi on Writing Gender, Power, and the Pain of Others

"I believe that lines should be capable of changing shape in many ways."

By Allison Markin Powell | May 8, 2019

Embedded with the Beating Heart of Madagascar's Literary Life

Embedded with the Beating Heart of Madagascar's Literary Life

Allison M. Charette Travels 9,000 Miles to Translate Michèle Rakotoson

By Allison M. Charette | April 17, 2019

Svetlana Alexievich in Praise<br> of Maxim Osipov

Svetlana Alexievich in Praise
of Maxim Osipov

On the Russian Doctor Who Treats His Characters Like His Patients

By Svetlana Alexievich | April 9, 2019

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