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Writing in the Interim Language: Jhumpa Lahiri and Chiara Barzini in Conversation

Writing in the Interim Language: Jhumpa Lahiri and Chiara Barzini in Conversation

On Seeking Literature’s Third Spaces

By Chiara Barzini | April 14, 2026

Lisa Lee on Translating an Emotion

Lisa Lee on Translating an Emotion

“In writing toward what I didn’t know, I rediscovered something I had largely forgotten.”

By Lisa Lee | April 3, 2026

A Resonant Silence: Heather Cleary on Translating María Ospina’s <em>Only a Little While Here</em>

A Resonant Silence: Heather Cleary on Translating María Ospina’s Only a Little While Here

"There is a powerful form of resistance to be found in lingering with the unfamiliar..."

By Heather Cleary | March 31, 2026

Langston Hughes: Novelist, Poet, Activist and... Translator

Langston Hughes: Novelist, Poet, Activist and... Translator

Ricardo Wilson II on the Writer’s Experience in Mexico and His Struggle to Bring Mexican and Cuban Writers to American Audiences

By Ricardo Wilson II | March 27, 2026

On the Complexities of Navigating Indigenous Life in a Relentlessly Modern World

On the Complexities of Navigating Indigenous Life in a Relentlessly Modern World

Irina Sadovina on the Important Lessons in Anna Nerkagi’s White Moss

By Irina Sadovina | March 25, 2026

Mieko Kawakami on Sisterhood, Survival, and Finding Hope in the Darkness

Mieko Kawakami on Sisterhood, Survival, and Finding Hope in the Darkness

In Conversation With Her Translators, Laurel Taylor and Hitomi Yoshio

By Leanne Ogasawara | March 23, 2026

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Freedom Through Structure: On Translating Vicente Luis Mora’s Centroeuropa

By Rahul Bery | March 11, 2026

When Persistence Pays Off: On Translating and Publishing the Work of Kanako Nishi

By Allison Markin Powell | March 4, 2026

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

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

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

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

The Author of Death and the Gardener in Conversation with His Translator, Angela Rodel

By Angela Rodel | November 5, 2025

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

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

Akvilė Kavaliauskaitė Considers the One-Way Cultural Street Between Her Home Country and the Rest of the World

By Akvilė Kavaliauskaitė | October 22, 2025

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