• On Translation

    Buddhism

    How a Poetry Collection Masquerading as Buddhist Scripture Nearly Duped the Literary World

    By An Tran  February 3, 2021
    On Translation

    How to Translate a Journey Without a Destination

    By Will Schutt  January 12, 2021
    On Translation

    On Translating Poems While Riding the Metro in Rome

    By Damiano Abeni  December 14, 2020
    News and Culture

    The Challenges of Translating Jean Daive’s Memoir 
    on Paul Celan

    By Robert Kaufman and Philip Gerard  December 9, 2020
    Translation

    On Translating the Little Known Italian Novel That Anticipated the Anthropocene

    By Frederika Randall  December 7, 2020
    Translation

    How Sigrid Undset Brought a Medieval Norwegian
    Epic to Life

    By Tiina Nunnally  November 12, 2020
    Poetry

    Tracy K. Smith on Translating
    the World of Yi Lei

    By Tracy K. Smith  November 11, 2020
    On Translation

    WATCH: Writers and Translators on What It Means to Have a ‘Mother Tongue’

    By Literary Hub  October 23, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    The Spontaneous Quarantine Writing that Became a Hit in Japan

    By Barry Yourgrau  October 16, 2020
    Great Authors

    On Reengaging with Franz Kafka’s Astonishing Worlds

    By Gregory Ariail  October 1, 2020
    In Translation

    In Vigdis Hjorth’s Norway, Perfect Happiness Amounts to Complacency

    By Charlotte Barslund  September 21, 2020
    On Translation

    How the Art—and Love—of Translation Relies on Intuition

    By Anne Posten  September 16, 2020
    On Translation

    On Rendering My Own Novel Into Spanish

    By Carolina De Robertis  September 3, 2020
    On Translation

    Inside the Intricate Translation Process for a Murakami Novel

    By David Karashima  September 2, 2020
    Latin American Literature

    Carlos Fonseca on Harnessing the Literary Power of Tedium

    By Juan Toledo  August 28, 2020
    Reading Women

    Reading Women on Contemporary Japanese Writers in Translation

    By Reading Women  August 26, 2020
    Translation

    Encountering Hervé Guibert’s Anti-Utopian Men

    By Jeffrey Zuckerman  June 22, 2020
    On Translation

    Finding a Mother Tongue

    By Mariana Oliver  May 27, 2020
    On Translation

    Dola de Jong’s Novel of Resistance in Love and War

    By Kristen Gehrman  May 18, 2020
    On Translation

    The First State-Approved North Korean Novel in English

    By Esther Kim  May 13, 2020
    On Translation

    Sara Mesa’s Novels of Ambiguous, Twisted Power

    By Katie Whittemore  May 11, 2020
    Translation

    Life As It Really Is: Translator Richard Pevear on the Stories of Chekhov

    By Richard Pevear  April 14, 2020
    Translation

    When Sharon Dodua Otoo, Relatively New to Writing in German, Won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize

    By Idra Novey  March 4, 2020
    In Translation

    The Art of War is Actually a Manual on How to Avoid It

    By Michael Nylan  January 16, 2020
    Language

    Why We Love
    Untranslatable Words

    By David Shariatmadari  January 8, 2020
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