Bridging the Gaps: On Writing and Revising a Novel in Two Languages

Bridging the Gaps: On Writing and Revising a Novel in Two Languages

Julia Malye Explores Her Personal and Literary Relationship with French and English

By Julia Malye | June 21, 2024

Dreaming in English of Dreaming in Kashmiri: What You Can Only Express in One Language

Dreaming in English of Dreaming in Kashmiri: What You Can Only Express in One Language

Priyanka Mattoo on the Complexities of Living in a Multicultural Family

By Priyanka Mattoo | June 18, 2024

Camille Bordas on What Stand-Up Comedy Can Teach Writing Workshops About Growing Thicker Skin

Camille Bordas on What Stand-Up Comedy Can Teach Writing Workshops About Growing Thicker Skin

Adam Ehrlich Sachs in Conversation with the Author of “The Material”

By Adam Ehrlich Sachs | June 13, 2024

Between Languages: Yukiko Tominaga on Writing in English and Japanese

Between Languages: Yukiko Tominaga on Writing in English and Japanese

“Switching around the two languages frees me from my own stigma.”

By Yukiko Tominaga | May 31, 2024

Literary Catharsis: Jenna Tang on Translating Lin Yi-Han’s Only Novel, <em>Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise</em>

Literary Catharsis: Jenna Tang on Translating Lin Yi-Han’s Only Novel, Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise

On Taiwanese Literature, Trauma, and Redefining "Home"

By Jenna Tang | May 30, 2024

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

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

By Jordan Landsman | May 16, 2024

How Jon Fosse Teaches Us to Acknowledge Our Own Vulnerability

By Sarah Cameron Sunde | May 6, 2024

In Words and Beyond Them: Jane Hirshfield on the Transformative Art of Translation

By Jane Hirshfield | April 9, 2024

Lost in Translation: Unpacking the Shohei Ohtani Scandal

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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

Caught Between Zodiacs: A Capricorn Daughter Remembers Her Translator Father

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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

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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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