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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

Between Taiwanese and Mandarin: Translation as a Test of Allegiance

Between Taiwanese and Mandarin: Translation as a Test of Allegiance

Kevin Wang Explores How Translating Terao Tetsuya’s “Spent Bullets” Helped Him Understand the Legacy of Taiwan

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

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On Translating Proust and the Art of Not Reading Ahead

By Bryan Alistair Charles | October 7, 2025

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

By Sarah Viren | October 3, 2025

Ten Titles in Translation That Celebrate Ukraine

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

On Bringing the Novels of Mizuki Tsujimura to English Readers

On Bringing the Novels of Mizuki Tsujimura to English Readers

Yuki Tejima: “For fifteen years, the novel has been passed from reader to reader in Japan.”

By Yuki Tejima | August 26, 2025

Blurring Genre, Gender: The Rich Challenges of Translating Kim de l’Horizon’s Wild Fiction

Blurring Genre, Gender: The Rich Challenges of Translating Kim de l’Horizon’s Wild Fiction

Jamie Lee Searle Reflects on Capturing the Elusive Essence of “Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues”

By Jamie Lee Searle | August 25, 2025

On Discovering My Aunt Eleni’s Place in Queer Greek Literature

On Discovering My Aunt Eleni’s Place in Queer Greek Literature

Natalie Bakopoulos Shares Lessons From Translating Her Aunt’s Novel

By Natalie Bakopoulos | August 21, 2025

Journeying in the Other Direction: On Bringing a Great Tamil Writer to English Readers

Journeying in the Other Direction: On Bringing a Great Tamil Writer to English Readers

On Translating Jeyamohan’s “Stories of the True”

By Priyamvada Ramkumar | August 18, 2025

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