On the Richness of Isaac Babel’s Odessa

On the Richness of Isaac Babel’s Odessa

Read Boris Dralyuk’s New Translation of “Lyubka the Cossack”

By Isaac Babel | September 27, 2022

Translating in Tandem: A Reading List of Collaborative Translated Literature

Translating in Tandem: A Reading List of Collaborative Translated Literature

Daniel Hahn and Lisa Dillman Recommend Emi Yagi, José Ovejero, Roy Jacobsen, and More

By Daniel Hahn and Lisa Dillman | September 27, 2022

Jhumpa Lahiri on Michael F. Moore’s Translation of Alessandro Manzoni’s <em>The Betrothed</em>

Jhumpa Lahiri on Michael F. Moore’s Translation of Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed

“The fruit of the union between an author and a translator is what enables literature to proliferate and seduce readers.”

By Jhumpa Lahiri | September 13, 2022

Mychal Denzel Smith on How to Have an Opinion in Memoir

Mychal Denzel Smith on How to Have an Opinion in Memoir

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | September 12, 2022

Do We Need a Support Group? How Translation Can—and Should—Be a Collective Effort

Do We Need a Support Group? How Translation Can—and Should—Be a Collective Effort

Michele Huchison on Creating and Maintaining Literary Community

By Michele Hutchison | September 8, 2022

Trauma Spoken and Unspoken: How Francophone Women Writers Tackle Sexual Violence

Trauma Spoken and Unspoken: How Francophone Women Writers Tackle Sexual Violence

Dr. Dominique Carlini-Versini on French Literature In The #MeToo Era

By Dr. Dominique Carlini-Versini | September 2, 2022

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Tarek Abi Samra on Stealing Kant From a Bookstore

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Jenny Bhatt Considers Gujarati Literary Culture and the Politics of Translation

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What Only Musicians and Translators Know

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Jessica Sequeira on Transforming Emotion into Music and Words

By Jessica Sequeira | July 20, 2022

Amy B. Reid on Translating the Very Book She Needed to Read

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On Mutt-Lon's The Blunder

By Amy B. Reid | July 14, 2022

Rachel Careau on How Translating Roger Lewinter Helped Her Translate Colette

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"I could tell Lewinter, they are not so very different after all."

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The Unnoticed Generation: How Russian Writers in Paris Grappled With the Complexities of Life Between the Wars

The Unnoticed Generation: How Russian Writers in Paris Grappled With the Complexities of Life Between the Wars

Bryan Karetnyk on Translating the Work of Yuri Felsen

By Bryan Karetnyk | June 27, 2022

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“Translations build bridges across cultures.”

By Corinne Segal | June 24, 2022

On the Etymologies and Linguistic Evolutions of “Family”

On the Etymologies and Linguistic Evolutions of “Family”

Marina Manoukian Explores the Communication of a Ubiquitous Idea Across Disparate Cultures

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