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Writing While the Alphabet Burns: Ukrainian Literature to Help Understand the Ongoing War

Writing While the Alphabet Burns: Ukrainian Literature to Help Understand the Ongoing War

Introducing a New Critical Series For the Curious Reader

By Alex Averbuch | February 24, 2026

Translating Holocaust Literature in Times of Genocide

Translating Holocaust Literature in Times of Genocide

Sasha Senderovich and Harriet Murav on “new ways of seeing the Nazi genocide at a moment when such seeing is urgently needed.”

By Sasha Senderovich and Harriet Murav | February 13, 2026

Requiem for Weimar: On Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz’s <em>Berlin Shuffle</em>

Requiem for Weimar: On Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz’s Berlin Shuffle

Philip Boehm Considers the Contemporary Relevance of a Tale of 1920s Germany

By Philip Boehm | January 29, 2026

Chilling Lit: Six Novels in Translation That Blend Folktales and Horror

Chilling Lit: Six Novels in Translation That Blend Folktales and Horror

Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse Recommends Zuzana Ríhová, John Ajvide Lindqvist, and more

By Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse | December 5, 2025

Hannah Kauders on Grief, Translation, and Fátima Vélez’s <em>Galápagos</em>

Hannah Kauders on Grief, Translation, and Fátima Vélez’s Galápagos

“In death, all things are possible. It’s up to each of us to decide.”

By Hannah Kauders | December 3, 2025

Reading Around the World: 17 Great Books in Translation From University Presses

Reading Around the World: 17 Great Books in Translation From University Presses

Featuring Titles Translated from Uzbek, French, Arabic and More

By Literary Hub | November 10, 2025

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Georgi Gospodinov on the Loss of His Father and Writing About Death

By Angela Rodel | November 5, 2025

A Rare and Fragile Cage: On Loving—and Being Trapped By—the Lithuanian Language

By Akvilė Kavaliauskaitė | October 22, 2025

Between Taiwanese and Mandarin: Translation as a Test of Allegiance

By Kevin Wang | October 15, 2025

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

To Write Poetry After Gaza is a Necessity

To Write Poetry After Gaza is a Necessity

Huda Fakhreddine on Paul Celan and How Gaza Translates the World

By Huda Fakhreddine | August 28, 2025

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