• On Translation

    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
    Deep Dive

    The Experimental German Writer For Whom “Dumb” is A Badge of Honor

    By Adrian Nathan West  July 3, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Language as Homeland, Identity, and Normality

    By Mara Faye Lethem  June 7, 2018
    Feature

    Every Day, Another Language Dies

    By Heather Altfeld  May 29, 2018
    Conversations

    This Year’s Man Booker International Winner Has a Favorite For Next Year…

    By Jennifer Croft  May 25, 2018
    Criticism

    How Do We Judge Translations?

    By Kate Briggs  April 19, 2018
    Feature

    In Praise of the Near Impossible-to-Translate Novel

    By Veronica Esposito  April 16, 2018
    Excerpts

    On the Rise—and Cost—of the African Novel in English

    By Mukoma Wa Ngugi  April 9, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Why Are There Two Distinct Ways of Writing Norwegian?

    By Jessica Furseth  March 19, 2018
    Criticism

    The Tragedies of Aeschylus Are Truly Timeless

    By Ismail Kadare  February 26, 2018
    Essay

    The Political Power of Translation

    By Chenxin Jiang  January 8, 2018
    Essay

    Why I Gave Homer a Contemporary Voice in the Odyssey

    By Emily Wilson  December 19, 2017
    Conversations

    Meeting the Perfect Translator for My Book

    By Michael Frank  November 27, 2017
    Essay

    How a German Writer Made Peace with the Imprecision of English

    By Emanuel Bergmann  November 17, 2017
    Translation

    Languages Cannot Be Assimilated or Colonized, for They Contain Multitudes

    By Lauren Elkin  November 17, 2017
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