• On Translation

    On Translation

    On Translating Michele Mari, an Italian Literary “Living Legend”

    By Brian Robert Moore  August 9, 2023
    On Translation

    In Praise of “Spicy Interpretation”: On the Pleasure of Unexpected Translations and Explanations

    By Jessica Sequeira  August 4, 2023
    On Translation

    The Unique Challenges of Translating The Brothers Karamazov Into English

    By Michael R. Katz  July 21, 2023
    Exile

    How Syrian Writer Khaled Khalifa Navigates Exile Abroad and At Home

    By Alfred J. Naddaff  July 18, 2023
    Literary History

    The Complicated Afterlives of
    Roberto Bolaño

    By Aaron Shulman  July 17, 2023
    On Translation

    What Vera Mutafchieva’s The Case of Cem Tells Us About Europe’s Past and Present

    By Angela Rodel  June 23, 2023
    On Translation

    A Babel of Languages: Peter Constantine on the Joys of Translation and Multilingual Writing

    By Esther Allen  June 8, 2023
    On Translation

    Like a Magic Trick: Tim Mohr on Being the Translator and Being Translated

    By Tim Mohr  May 15, 2023
    Writers on Writers

    The Rebel Vocabulary of Ágota Kristóf

    By Helen Oyeyemi  May 4, 2023
    On Translation

    How Annie Ernaux Captures the Spirit of Her Era Through Its Big-Box Stores

    By Literary Hub  April 19, 2023
    On Translation

    Bookworm in a Chrysalis: How Language Acquisition Nourishes a Love of Literature

    By Natasha S. and Larissa Kyzer  April 19, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    A Passion for Living in the Present:
    A Conversation with Yuko Tsushima and Annie Ernaux

    By Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda  April 6, 2023
    On Translation

    Spokesperson, Intellectual, and… More? On the New and Shifting Role of the Translator

    By Lawrence Venuti  April 5, 2023
    In Memoriam

    Dubravka Ugrešić’s Translators Remember Her

    By Literary Hub  April 3, 2023
    Criticism

    The End of Desire: Christiane Blot-Labarrère on Marguerite Duras’s No More

    By Christiane Blot-Labarrère  March 22, 2023
    On Translation

    Every Writer Should Learn How to Translate

    By Kristen Renee Miller  March 20, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Xiaolu Guo on Translating
    the Self

    By Xiaolu Guo  March 10, 2023
    Politics

    In the Hour of War: Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky on Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry

    By Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky  February 24, 2023
    Language

    Reveling in the Untranslatable: On the Beauty and Complexity of the German Language

    By Jude Stewart  February 9, 2023
    On Translation

    Two of the Best Translators in the Business Are Married (to Each Other) and Up For the Same Literary Award

    By Jonny Diamond  February 8, 2023
    Diaries

    “What Excuse Do I Have for Having Written Nothing Yet Today? None.” Glimpses Into Kafka’s Workshop

    By Ross Benjamin  January 10, 2023
    On Translation

    On Translation and the (Temporary) Inheritance of Trauma

    By Yardenne Greenspan  January 4, 2023
    On Translation

    Why Turgenev Remains One of the Most Important Russian Writers (And Why You Should Read the Constance Garnett Translation)

    By Josh Billings  December 19, 2022
    Authors in the Tent

    Dora Diamant, the Amazing Woman Who Captured Kafka’s Heart

    By The Virtual Book Channel  December 15, 2022
    So Many Damn Books

    Alison Watts: The Life of a Translator and Reading for Fun When Your Job is in the Literary World

    By So Many Damn Books  December 13, 2022
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