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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

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

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

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

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

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Patty Crane on Translation and Influence

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"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

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

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Nothing is Lost in Translation: On Basque, Spanish, English and the Language of Dreams

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Fear of Indirect Contact: Todd Portnowitz on Translating Jhumpa Lahiri

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"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

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