• On Translation

    Poets in Conversation

    Wendy Call and Shook on the Power of Titles, Decolonization, and Translating Poems in Iterations

    The Translators of Mikeas Sánchez's “How to Be a Good Savage” in Conversation with Poets.org

     
    By Literary Hub  January 8, 2024
    literary criticism

    Canterbury Tales Down the Centuries: How Each Era Has Reinvented Chaucer

    By Marion Turner  December 11, 2023
    Palestinian Literature

    Where is Mosab Abu Toha? A Poem from Gaza in 22 Languages

    By Mosab Abu Toha  November 21, 2023
    In Conversation

    Meet the 2023 National Book Award Finalists

    By Emily Temple  November 8, 2023
    Languages

    Why Naoise Dolan Learned Italian for Her Book Tour

    By Naoise Dolan  November 7, 2023
    Languages

    How Ancient and Modern Greek Helps Us Make Sense of Greece Today

    By Nick Romeo  November 2, 2023
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    On Translation

    Consider the Words: On Translating Infinite Jest into Farsi

    By Moeen Farrokhi  November 1, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Patty Crane on Translation and Influence

    By Patty Crane  October 27, 2023
    In Translation

    Ye Chun on Bilingualism and Wuwei Writing

    By Ye Chun  October 17, 2023
    On Translation

    Playing With Words: Heather Cleary on the Pleasures of Translating the Unfamiliar

    “We often learn the most from texts (and friends) with which we have little in common.”

    By Heather Cleary  December 14, 2023
    On Translation

    Fear of Indirect Contact: Todd Portnowitz on Translating Jhumpa Lahiri

    By Todd Portnowitz  October 10, 2023
    literary criticism

    Why the Russian Protest Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky Still Matter Today

    By Philip Metres  October 10, 2023
    International Literature

    Derangement and Estrangement: On Poetic Turbulence in Translation

    By Joyelle McSweeney  October 9, 2023
    On Translation

    “Bitterness Incarnate:” Douglas J. Weatherford on Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo

    "The text vacillates between presence and absence, between reality and irreality, and even between life and death."

    By Douglas J. Weatherford  September 27, 2023
    Translation

    Drifting Along the Current: On the 10th Anniversary of Self-Portrait in Green

    By Jordan Stump  September 12, 2023
    On Translation

    On Translating Michele Mari, an Italian Literary “Living Legend”

    By Brian Robert Moore  August 9, 2023
    On Translation

    In Praise of “Spicy Interpretation”: On the Pleasure of Unexpected Translations and Explanations

    By Jessica Sequeira  August 4, 2023
    On Translation

    The Unique Challenges of Translating The Brothers Karamazov Into English

    Michael R. Katz on Creating the First New Translation of Dostoevsky’s Novel in Two Decades

    By Michael R. Katz  July 21, 2023
    Exile

    How Syrian Writer Khaled Khalifa Navigates Exile Abroad and At Home

    By Alfred J. Naddaff  July 18, 2023
    Literary History

    The Complicated Afterlives of
    Roberto Bolaño

    By Aaron Shulman  July 17, 2023
    On Translation

    What Vera Mutafchieva’s The Case of Cem Tells Us About Europe’s Past and Present

    By Angela Rodel  June 23, 2023
    On Translation

    A Babel of Languages: Peter Constantine on the Joys of Translation and Multilingual Writing

    Esther Allen Speaks with the Author of The Purchased Bride

    By Esther Allen  June 8, 2023
    On Translation

    Like a Magic Trick: Tim Mohr on Being the Translator and Being Translated

    By Tim Mohr  May 15, 2023
    Writers on Writers

    The Rebel Vocabulary of Ágota Kristóf

    By Helen Oyeyemi  May 4, 2023
    Feature

    Nothing is Lost in Translation: On Basque, Spanish, English and the Language of Dreams

    By Kirmen Uribe  October 16, 2023
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