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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

Books for Indie Booksellers: On the Craft of Selling Books

Books for Indie Booksellers: On the Craft of Selling Books

Rachael Conrad Recommends Josh Cook, Kristen Hogan, Jeff Deutsch, and More

By Rachael Conrad | February 23, 2024

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

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

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

By Bruna Dantas Lobato | February 14, 2024

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

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

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

By Gunnhild Øyehaug | February 12, 2024

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

By Literary Hub | January 8, 2024

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

By Heather Cleary | December 14, 2023

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

By Marion Turner | December 11, 2023

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

By Nick Romeo | November 2, 2023

Consider the Words: On Translating <em>Infinite Jest</em> into Farsi

Consider the Words: On Translating Infinite Jest into Farsi

Moeen Farrokhi Recalls Grieving a Mentor While Traversing a Linguistic Labyrinth

By Moeen Farrokhi | November 1, 2023

Patty Crane on Translation and Influence

Patty Crane on Translation and Influence

"Somewhere along the way, my immersion in Tranströmer and my search for a sense of place merged. As if the poetry became the place, and the place the poetry."

By Patty Crane | October 27, 2023

Ye Chun on Bilingualism and <em>Wuwei</em> Writing

Ye Chun on Bilingualism and Wuwei Writing

"Words did not flow. They were squeezed out and then staggered on the page without conviction."

By Ye Chun | October 17, 2023

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