Julio Cortázar Teaches a Class on His Own Short Story

Julio Cortázar Teaches a Class on His Own Short Story

A Modern Master on Realism, Fantasy, and the Violence of Latin-American Politics

By Julio Cortazar | March 28, 2017

Jhumpa Lahiri on the Compulsion to Translate Domenico Starnone

Jhumpa Lahiri on the Compulsion to Translate Domenico Starnone

Another Great Neapolitan Novel Comes to America

By Jhumpa Lahiri | March 7, 2017

On <em>Dracula's</em> Lost Icelandic Sister Text

On Dracula's Lost Icelandic Sister Text

How a Supposed Translation Proved to Be Much More

By Hans Corneel de Roos | February 6, 2017

Reuniting Two Halves of a Long-Lost Alexandre Dumas Novel

Reuniting Two Halves of a Long-Lost Alexandre Dumas Novel

A Literary Detective Story from the Translator of The Red Sphinx

By Lawrence Ellsworth | January 9, 2017

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neruda's Lost Poems

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neruda's Lost Poems

On Translating His Recent Collection of Never-Before-Seen Poems

By Forrest Gander | November 23, 2016

The Bolaño Effect: Latin American Literature in Translation

The Bolaño Effect: Latin American Literature in Translation

On the Great and Steady Surge in Translated Titles

By Nathan Scott McNamara | November 18, 2016

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