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Is This the First-Ever English Language Review of László Krasznahorkai?

Is This the First-Ever English Language Review of László Krasznahorkai?

Read Andrew Ervin’s January 2001 Take on “The Melancholy of Resistance”

By Andrew Ervin | October 9, 2025

On Translating Proust and the Art of Not Reading Ahead

On Translating Proust and the Art of Not Reading Ahead

“It is a bummer to me that Proust occupies such a rarefied, even elitist, realm in the culture.”

By Bryan Alistair Charles | October 7, 2025

Alex Niemi on the Process of Translation and the Rhythm of Language

Alex Niemi on the Process of Translation and the Rhythm of Language

Sarah Viren Talks to the Translator of Laura Vazquez‘s “The Endless Week”

By Sarah Viren | October 3, 2025

Ten Titles in Translation That Celebrate Ukraine

Ten Titles in Translation That Celebrate Ukraine

Nelly Klos Recommends Books, Plays, and Memoirs That Uplift Ukrainian Voices

By Nelly Klos | September 29, 2025

Writer, Resistance Fighter, and Kafka’s First Translator: Milena Jesenská, Forgotten No More

Writer, Resistance Fighter, and Kafka’s First Translator: Milena Jesenská, Forgotten No More

Christine Estima on Breathing Fictional Life Into a Long-Overlooked Literary Figure

By Christine Estima | September 12, 2025

Lalla Romano Was Writing Autofiction Before It Existed

Lalla Romano Was Writing Autofiction Before It Existed

On the Late Italian Writer’s Masterpiece, “In Farthest Seas”

By Brian Robert Moore | September 5, 2025

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The Case for Renaming Kafka’s <em>Metamorphosis</em> as <em>The Transformation</em>

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Margaret Busby on Jazz, Africa, and the Endurance of Jayne Cortez’s Disruptive Poetry

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Cruising the Holy Highway: Mary Jo Bang Journeys Through Dante’s “Paradiso”

Cruising the Holy Highway: Mary Jo Bang Journeys Through Dante’s “Paradiso”

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