• On Translation

    Language

    The Bittersweet Feeling of Reconnecting with a Forgotten Language

    By Susan Harlan  August 12, 2019
    The Hub

    Welcome to Women in Translation Month!

    By Aaron Robertson  August 1, 2019
    Social Novels

    On One of the Great Dutch Novels of Social Reform

    By Pramoedya Ananta Toer  July 25, 2019
    First Languages

    The Poetic Pleasures and Pains We Can Only Express in Dutch

    By Sadiqa de Meijer  June 25, 2019
    Existentialism

    The Anti-Capitalist Power of Jean de La Ville de Mirmont’s Fiction

    By André Naffis-Sahely  June 21, 2019
    Profiles

    On Fact, Fiction, and Translating Lena Andersson

    By Saskia Vogel  May 23, 2019
    Kafkaesque

    On Translating Mario Levrero,
    The Kafka of Uruguay

    By Annie McDermott  May 15, 2019
    Graphic Novels

    Illustrating the Visual Illusions of Walter Benjamin’s Mind

    By Frances Cannon  May 9, 2019
    Japanese Literature

    Kanako Nishi on Writing Gender, Power, and the Pain of Others

    By Allison Markin Powell  May 8, 2019
    News and Culture

    Embedded with the Beating Heart of Madagascar’s Literary Life

    By Allison M. Charette  April 17, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    Svetlana Alexievich in Praise
    of Maxim Osipov

    By Svetlana Alexievich  April 9, 2019
    Excerpts

    A Letter to Virginia Woolf,On Translating A Room of One’s Own into Romanian

    By Elena Marcu  March 6, 2019
    Conversations

    On Translating Bolaño (and His Obsessions)

    By Literary Hub  February 8, 2019
    Translation

    Ten Thoughts on Having Your Novel Translated into Your Native Tongue

    By Johannes Lichtman  February 5, 2019
    Excerpts

    Marcel Proust Was Almost Impossible to Edit

    By Carol Clark  January 8, 2019
    Essay

    What Do I Risk Losing By Writing Down My Family’s Stories in English?

    By Jamil Jan Kochai  January 7, 2019
    Reboots

    Preti Taneja on “Translating” Shakespeare Into Her Novel

    By So Many Damn Books  December 4, 2018
    Feature

    10 Literary Translators on the Art of Translation

    By Emily Temple  November 28, 2018
    Essay

    I Was Almost Svetlana Alexievich’s Translator

    By Laura Esther Wolfson  November 5, 2018
    Feature

    The Weirdos of Russian Literature

    By Viv Groskop  November 2, 2018
    In Memoriam

    Anthea Bell, Translator of Sebald, Kafka, and Asterix, Has Died at 82

    By Emily Temple  October 18, 2018
    Translation

    The Joy and Terror of Translating James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room

    By Elena Marcu  August 22, 2018
    Feature

    The Poet Who Survived Stalin’s Poems

    By Ilya Kutik and Reginald Gibbons  August 21, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Why Do Americans Read so Few Books in Translation?

    By Gabriella Page-Fort  August 3, 2018
    Essay

    What is the Morally Appropriate Language in Which to Think and Write?

    By Arundhati Roy  July 25, 2018
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