Marcel Proust Was Almost Impossible to Edit

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Carol Clark on the Challenges of Editing and Translating The Prisoner

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What Do I Risk Losing By Writing Down My Family's Stories in English?

What Do I Risk Losing By Writing Down My Family's Stories in English?

Jamil Jan Kochai on Traditions of Afghan Oral Storytelling

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Preti Taneja on

Preti Taneja on "Translating" Shakespeare Into Her Novel

In Conversation with Christopher Hermelin and Drew Broussard on
So Many Damn Books

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10 Literary Translators on the Art of Translation

10 Literary Translators on the Art of Translation

"Like the ghostwriter, the translator must slip on a second skin."

By Emily Temple | November 28, 2018

I Was Almost Svetlana Alexievich's Translator

I Was Almost Svetlana Alexievich's Translator

Laura Esther Wolfson Falling Short of Literary Fame

By Laura Esther Wolfson | November 5, 2018

The Weirdos of Russian Literature

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On the Foibles of Genius, From Tolstoy to Akhmatova

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