Translation

Can We Ever Escape History? On Walter Kempowski’s Life’s Work

An Antidote to the Traumatic Experiences of a Wartime Childhood

 
By Jenny Erpenbeck  January 31, 2018
Excerpts

Frankenstein in Baghdad

By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 25, 2018
Excerpts

Little Reunions

By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 19, 2018
Essay

There is No Single Voice of America

By Elaine Castillo  January 17, 2018
Excerpts

Theory of Shadows

By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 16, 2018
Essay

The Political Power of Translation

By Chenxin Jiang  January 8, 2018
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The World Goes On

By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 3, 2018
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Sisters of the Cross

By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 22, 2017
Essay

Why I Gave Homer a Contemporary Voice in the Odyssey

By Emily Wilson  December 19, 2017
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The Enchanted Clock

By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 19, 2017
Short story writers

“The Gift”

By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 18, 2017
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They Know Not What They Do

By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 13, 2017
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Dandelions

By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 12, 2017
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The Novel of the Tupinamba Indian

By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 11, 2017
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Her Mother’s Mother’s Mother and Her Daughters

By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 8, 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
Excerpts

The Hotel Tito

By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 14, 2017
Deep Dive

What We Can Learn From Multiple Translations of the Same Poem

By Martha Collins  November 13, 2017
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Nightmare in Berlin

By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 8, 2017
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Three Floors Up

By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 6, 2017
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North Station

By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 20, 2017
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The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao

By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 16, 2017
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The Iliac Crest

By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 13, 2017
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