On Translating Your Own Novel *Back* Into Your Mother Tongue

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On the Latest Threat to Literary Culture’s Fragile Ecosystem: Donald Trump

On the Latest Threat to Literary Culture’s Fragile Ecosystem: Donald Trump

Maris Kreizman Wonders What Can Be Done in the Face of Trump’s Devastating NEA Cuts?

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Is Translating Your Own Writing Really “Translation”?

Is Translating Your Own Writing Really “Translation”?

Sibila Petlevski: “I have no pretension to speak on behalf of nature, but rather I let the green of the leaves speak for me.”

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The Future Will be Translated: <br>A Manifesto in Three Lies

The Future Will be Translated:
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Chloe Garcia Roberts on the Reasons for Hope in the Field of Translation

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The Second Life: On Translating Literature Into Farsi and Life into English

The Second Life: On Translating Literature Into Farsi and Life into English

Moeen Farrokhi Considers the Spaces Between Language and Experience

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Catharsis, Harpies, Harmatia, and More: Natasha Pulley on Her Favorite Greek Words

Catharsis, Harpies, Harmatia, and More: Natasha Pulley on Her Favorite Greek Words

The Author of “Hymn to Dionysus” Explores a Linguistic Venn Diagram of Meaning

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The Poet of the Revolution: Read Newly Translated Work by One of Egypt’s Most Prominent Poets, Mostafa Ibrahim

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