The Special Challenges of Attempting a New Translation of Kafka

The Special Challenges of Attempting a New Translation of Kafka

Mark Harman on Learning to Understand Both the Surfaces and “Subterranean Passages” of Kafka

By Mark Harman | May 28, 2024

The Secret Master: On Translating the Forgotten Argentine Writer Ángel Bonomini

The Secret Master: On Translating the Forgotten Argentine Writer Ángel Bonomini

Jordan Landsman Remembers the Writer Admired by Jorge Luis Borges, Alberto Manguel, and Others

By Jordan Landsman | May 16, 2024

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

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Caught Between Zodiacs: A Capricorn Daughter Remembers Her Translator Father

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

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

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“I let the racialized language live in the novel as it ought to, to stand as is.”

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Blood on All Our Hands: Gunnhild Øyehaug on Adania Shibli’s <em>Minor Detail</em>

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“The book had overwhelmed me, among other things, because of this: shame at how little I actually knew.”

By Gunnhild Øyehaug | February 12, 2024

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

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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

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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

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