• On Translation

    Memory

    Trust the Text: On Translating the Autobiographical Novel of Linda Boström Knausgård

    By Saskia Vogel  June 28, 2021
    Interview with an Indie Press

    Interview with an Indie Press:
    Archipelago Books

    By Corinne Segal  June 25, 2021
    Writers on Writers

    Yan Lianke on Intoxicated Revolutionaries and the Importance of
    “Literary Distance”

    By An Yu  June 21, 2021
    On Translation

    On the Diplomatic Mistranslation That Changed the Course of History

    By Anna Aslanyan  June 21, 2021
    Language

    On a Non-Native English Speaker’s Creative Journey to Authenticity

    By Dariel Suarez  June 17, 2021
    Otherppl

    “It’s Not Something I Would Recommend.” Lana Bastašić on Translating Her Own Book

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  June 16, 2021
    Science fiction

    Other Worlds, Other Voices: Reading Translated Science Fiction by Women

    By Sharmila Cohen  May 21, 2021
    5 Books You May Have Missed

    5 Books in Translation You May Have Missed in April

    By Bethanne Patrick  May 19, 2021
    On Translation

    In Praise of the Singular “They”
    in Literary Translation

    By Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler  May 14, 2021
    On Poetry

    A Lifetime of Luminous Poetry: Nandana Dev Sen on Translating the Work of Her Mother, Nabaneeta

    By Nandana Dev Sen  May 13, 2021
    Women Writers

    A Game of Cutouts: On Norah Lange’s Unconventional Narrative Experimentation

    By Charlotte Whittle  May 5, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Jhumpa Lahiri on the Joy of Translation as Discovery

    By Jhumpa Lahiri  May 1, 2021
    Thresholds

    Ahmed Naji on the Contemporary Reality of the Exiled Writer

    By Thresholds   April 28, 2021
    Translation

    On Translating the Musicality of Sentences From One Language to Another

    By Julia Sanches  April 16, 2021
    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
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