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On Translation
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
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
“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
Marion Turner on the Dramatically Different Ways We Have Read The Canterbury Tales
By
Marion Turner
| December 11, 2023
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
Rapid-Fire Interviews with Some of Our Best Writers and Translators
By
Emily Temple
| November 8, 2023
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Why Naoise Dolan Learned Italian for Her Book Tour
By
Naoise Dolan
| November 7, 2023
How Ancient and Modern Greek Helps Us Make Sense of Greece Today
By
Nick Romeo
| November 2, 2023
Consider the Words: On Translating
Infinite Jest
into Farsi
By
Moeen Farrokhi
| November 1, 2023
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
Wuwei
Writing
"Words did not flow. They were squeezed out and then staggered on the page without conviction."
By
Ye Chun
| October 17, 2023
Nothing is Lost in Translation: On Basque, Spanish, English and the Language of Dreams
Kirmen Uribe on Life and Literature Between Languages
By
Kirmen Uribe
| October 16, 2023
Fear of Indirect Contact: Todd Portnowitz on Translating Jhumpa Lahiri
"We resent that there’s an interpretive element to translation."
By
Todd Portnowitz
| October 10, 2023
Why the Russian Protest Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky Still Matter Today
Phillip Metres on Political Literature, Classical Forms, and What Outsiders Get Wrong About Russian Poetry
By
Philip Metres
| October 10, 2023
Derangement and Estrangement: On Poetic Turbulence in Translation
Joyelle McSweeney Considers Hussein Barghouthi's
The Blue Light
and Kim Hyesoon's
Phantom Pain Wings
By
Joyelle McSweeney
| October 9, 2023
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Pedro Páramo">"Bitterness Incarnate:" Douglas J. Weatherford on Juan Rulfo's
Pedro Páramo
"The text vacillates between presence and absence, between reality and irreality, and even between life and death."
By
Douglas J. Weatherford
| September 27, 2023
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