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How Jon Fosse Teaches Us to Acknowledge Our Own Vulnerability

How Jon Fosse Teaches Us to Acknowledge Our Own Vulnerability

Sarah Cameron Sunde on Translating the Nobel Laureate's Complex Silences for American Audiences

By Sarah Cameron Sunde | May 6, 2024

In Words and Beyond Them: Jane Hirshfield on the Transformative Art of Translation

In Words and Beyond Them: Jane Hirshfield on the Transformative Art of Translation

“The act of translating opens the psyche’s innermost rooms to the unknown.”

By Jane Hirshfield | April 9, 2024

Lost in Translation: Unpacking the Shohei Ohtani Scandal

Lost in Translation: Unpacking the Shohei Ohtani Scandal

Emily Nemens On the All-But-Invisible Role of Interpreters, in Literature and in Baseball

By Emily Nemens | April 8, 2024

How Translating a Novel About Emily Dickinson Got Rhonda Mullins Through the Pandemic

How Translating a Novel About Emily Dickinson Got Rhonda Mullins Through the Pandemic

On Dominique Fortier's “Pale Shadows,” the Frictionlessness of Death, and More

By Rhonda Mullins | March 18, 2024

Caught Between Zodiacs: A Capricorn Daughter Remembers Her Translator Father

Caught Between Zodiacs: A Capricorn Daughter Remembers Her Translator Father

Grace Loh Prasad Looks For Meaning in the Space Between Western and Chinese Astrology

By Grace Loh Prasad | March 8, 2024

Kalpana Raina on Translating Her Uncle Hari Krishna Kaul’s Stories of Kashmir

Kalpana Raina on Translating Her Uncle Hari Krishna Kaul’s Stories of Kashmir

“There are no grand themes in Kaul’s work, but an exploration and ultimately an acceptance of human limitations.”

By Kalpana Raina | March 6, 2024

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Books for Indie Booksellers: On the Craft of Selling Books

By Rachael Conrad | February 23, 2024

Translating Race: Bruna Dantas Lobato on Jeferson Tenório’s The Dark Side of Skin

By Bruna Dantas Lobato | February 14, 2024

Blood on All Our Hands: Gunnhild Øyehaug on Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail

By Gunnhild Øyehaug | February 12, 2024

Wendy Call and Shook on the Power of Titles, Decolonization, and Translating Poems in Iterations

Wendy Call and Shook on the Power of Titles, Decolonization, and Translating Poems in Iterations

The Translators of Mikeas Sánchez's “How to Be a Good Savage” in Conversation with Poets.org

By Literary Hub | January 8, 2024

Playing With Words: Heather Cleary on the Pleasures of Translating the Unfamiliar

Playing With Words: Heather Cleary on the Pleasures of Translating the Unfamiliar

“We often learn the most from texts (and friends) with which we have little in common.”

By Heather Cleary | December 14, 2023

Canterbury Tales Down the Centuries: How Each Era Has Reinvented Chaucer

Canterbury Tales Down the Centuries: How Each Era Has Reinvented Chaucer

Marion Turner on the Dramatically Different Ways We Have Read The Canterbury Tales

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Where is Mosab Abu Toha? A Poem from Gaza in 22 Languages

Where is Mosab Abu Toha? A Poem from Gaza in 22 Languages

Read “What Is Home?” by the Palestinian Poet Recently Kidnapped by Israeli Forces

By Mosab Abu Toha | November 21, 2023

Meet the 2023 National Book Award Finalists

Meet the 2023 National Book Award Finalists

Rapid-Fire Interviews with Some of Our Best Writers and Translators

By Emily Temple | November 8, 2023

Why Naoise Dolan Learned Italian for Her Book Tour

Why Naoise Dolan Learned Italian for Her Book Tour

And Why Reading, Writing, and Speaking a New Language Imperfectly is OK

By Naoise Dolan | November 7, 2023

How Ancient and Modern Greek Helps Us Make Sense of Greece Today

How Ancient and Modern Greek Helps Us Make Sense of Greece Today

Nick Romeo on the Tradition of European Explorers in Greece

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