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How Syrian Writer Khaled Khalifa Navigates Exile Abroad and At Home

How Syrian Writer Khaled Khalifa Navigates Exile Abroad and At Home

Alfred J. Naddaff Spends 72 Hours in Zurich With the Chronicler of Modern Syria

By Alfred J. Naddaff | July 18, 2023

The Complicated Afterlives of <br>Roberto Bolaño

The Complicated Afterlives of
Roberto Bolaño

Twenty Years After His Death, Aaron Shulman Unpacks the Legacy of the Chilean Poet and Novelist

By Aaron Shulman | July 17, 2023

What Vera Mutafchieva’s <em>The Case of Cem</em> Tells Us About Europe’s Past and Present

What Vera Mutafchieva’s The Case of Cem Tells Us About Europe’s Past and Present

Angela Rodel on Translating a 20th-Century Bulgarian Classic

By Angela Rodel | June 23, 2023

A Babel of Languages: Peter Constantine on the Joys of Translation and Multilingual Writing

A Babel of Languages: Peter Constantine on the Joys of Translation and Multilingual Writing

Esther Allen Speaks with the Author of The Purchased Bride

By Esther Allen | June 8, 2023

Like a Magic Trick: Tim Mohr on Being the Translator and Being Translated

Like a Magic Trick: Tim Mohr on Being the Translator and Being Translated

On the intersection of German translation, East Bloc punk rock, and Hunter S. Thompson

By Tim Mohr | May 15, 2023

The Rebel Vocabulary of Ágota Kristóf

The Rebel Vocabulary of Ágota Kristóf

Helen Oyeyemi on Kristóf's memoir The Illiterate

By Helen Oyeyemi | May 4, 2023

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Spokesperson, Intellectual, and... More? On the New and Shifting Role of the Translator

Spokesperson, Intellectual, and... More? On the New and Shifting Role of the Translator

Lawrence Venuti Considers the “New Visibility” of Literary Translation

By Lawrence Venuti | April 5, 2023

Dubravka Ugrešić’s Translators Remember Her

Dubravka Ugrešić’s Translators Remember Her

Five Translators on the Woman Who Wrote on Displacement, Transnationalism, and the Joys of Literature

By Literary Hub | April 3, 2023

The End of Desire: Christiane Blot-Labarrère on Marguerite Duras’s <em>No More</em>

The End of Desire: Christiane Blot-Labarrère on Marguerite Duras’s No More

"The sentiment of never more—this is the labyrinth in which language helplessly tries to beguile death."

By Christiane Blot-Labarrère | March 22, 2023

Every Writer Should Learn How to Translate

Every Writer Should Learn How to Translate

Kristen Renee Miller on the Transformative Experience of Translating Marie-Andrée Gill

By Kristen Renee Miller | March 20, 2023

Xiaolu Guo on Translating<br> the Self

Xiaolu Guo on Translating
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“I want to talk about the possibilities of translation.”

By Xiaolu Guo | March 10, 2023

In the Hour of War: Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky on Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry

In the Hour of War: Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky on Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry

“Take only what is most important. Take the letters. / Take only what you can carry.”

By Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky | February 24, 2023

Reveling in the Untranslatable: On the Beauty and Complexity of the German Language

Reveling in the Untranslatable: On the Beauty and Complexity of the German Language

“German is the mirror that I managed to polish to an unusually high shine.”

By Jude Stewart | February 9, 2023

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