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On Translation

The Quarantine Tapes

Tess Lewis on the Politics and Ethics of Translation

By The Quarantine Tapes  April 15, 2021
The Hub

Vive the erotic far left! Why Violette Leduc’s The Taxi needs a new translation.

By Jonny Diamond  April 7, 2021
Literary History

Translating Brodsky: On the Undeniable Legacy of George L. Kline

By Cynthia L. Haven  April 5, 2021
Translation

From The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Selim Özdoğan

By Lit Hub Excerpts  April 2, 2021
Translation

On the 15-Year Journey to Translating Selim Özdoğan’s The Blacksmith’s Daughter

By Literary Hub  April 2, 2021
Translation

Have Italian Scholars Figured Out the Identity of Elena Ferrante?

By Elisa Sotgiu  March 31, 2021
Translation

Ilan Stavans on Sympathy, Eroticism, and the Practice of Revision in Translation

By Peter Cole  March 26, 2021
Well-Versed

Translating Tove Ditlevsen: ‘It Is Not the Voice of Someone Who Is Suffering’

By Well-Versed   March 26, 2021
End Times

Betina González on Economic Precarity, End Times, and
Killer Deer

By Yuri Herrera  March 8, 2021
The Writing Life

When a Young Literary Star Refuses the Spotlight

By Simon Leser  February 26, 2021
Witches

Power and Control: On the Very Rare Case of a Male Witch’s Execution

By Kathryn Nuernberger  February 19, 2021
On Translation

How Translation Brought Me Home to Tunisia

By Lara Vergnaud  February 8, 2021
Buddhism

How a Poetry Collection Masquerading as Buddhist Scripture Nearly Duped the Literary World

By An Tran  February 3, 2021
On Translation

How to Translate a Journey Without a Destination

By Will Schutt  January 12, 2021
On Translation

On Translating Poems While Riding the Metro in Rome

By Damiano Abeni  December 14, 2020
News and Culture

The Challenges of Translating Jean Daive’s Memoir 
on Paul Celan

By Robert Kaufman and Philip Gerard  December 9, 2020
Translation

On Translating the Little Known Italian Novel That Anticipated the Anthropocene

By Frederika Randall  December 7, 2020
Translation

How Sigrid Undset Brought a Medieval Norwegian
Epic to Life

By Tiina Nunnally  November 12, 2020
Poetry

Tracy K. Smith on Translating
the World of Yi Lei

By Tracy K. Smith  November 11, 2020
On Translation

WATCH: Writers and Translators on What It Means to Have a ‘Mother Tongue’

By Literary Hub  October 23, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

The Spontaneous Quarantine Writing that Became a Hit in Japan

By Barry Yourgrau  October 16, 2020
Great Authors

On Reengaging with Franz Kafka’s Astonishing Worlds

By Gregory Ariail  October 1, 2020
In Translation

In Vigdis Hjorth’s Norway, Perfect Happiness Amounts to Complacency

By Charlotte Barslund  September 21, 2020
On Translation

How the Art—and Love—of Translation Relies on Intuition

By Anne Posten  September 16, 2020
On Translation

On Rendering My Own Novel Into Spanish

By Carolina De Robertis  September 3, 2020
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