• On Translation

    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
    The Hub

    What would an AI text generator do with the first lines of literature’s greatest novels?

    By Jonny Diamond  November 12, 2019
    Russian Literature

    The Woman Who Brought Dostoevsky and Chekhov to English Readers

    By Sara Wheeler  November 12, 2019
    Interview

    Rosalie Knecht and Idra Novey on Translation, Writing Tension, and Literary ‘Retrenchment’

    By Brian Gresko  November 6, 2019
    Translation

    Reyna Grande on Translating Her Own Book Into Spanish

    By Reyna Grande  October 29, 2019
    Nationalism

    The Hungarian Author Who Foresaw the Future of Nationalism

    By Stephanie Newman  October 17, 2019
    Nobel Prize?

    Karl Ove Knausgaard on the Writing of Jon Fosse

    By Karl Ove Knausgaard  September 30, 2019
    African Literature

    In a Sudan Where Literature is Often Smuggled, the Short Story is a Perfect Form

    By Marcia Lynx Qualey  September 27, 2019
    Language

    Of Sisterly Bonds and Translating the Untranslatable

    By Jennifer Croft  September 17, 2019
    Foreign Literature

    Jhumpa Lahiri on Editing an Anthology of Italian Fiction

    By Jhumpa Lahiri  September 10, 2019
    Literary Legends

    Tracking Down My Literary Idol to a San Francisco Commune

    By Philippe Aronson  August 28, 2019
    Language

    Belonging is Not a Language You Can Learn

    By Brittani Sonnenberg  August 19, 2019
    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
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