• On Translation

    Book Covers

    How to Reframe the Strangeness of The Plague as Sci-Fi Noir

    By Sunra Thompson  November 24, 2021
    Reading Lists

    “Territories of the Uncanny.” A Reading List of the Irreal

    By Helen Chau Bradley  November 24, 2021
    French literature

    The Methodology of Musicality: On Translating the Literary Lyricism of The Last One

    By Lara Vergnaud  November 23, 2021
    Queer Literature

    To All the Gays of Seoul: On Translating Sang Young Park

    By Anton Hur  November 17, 2021
    Festival Neue Literatur

    Strangeness, Uncanniness, Eeriness: This Year at the Festival Neue Literatur

    By Literary Hub  November 10, 2021
    Interview with an Indie Press

    Interview with an Indie Press: Two Lines Press

    By Corinne Segal  November 5, 2021
    Nigerian Literature

    On the Politics of Language in Nigerian Literature

    By Ọlájídé Salawu  October 27, 2021
    Language

    Defamiliarizing the Mother Tongue: On Immigration’s Impact on Learning and Losing Language

    By Julie Sedivy  October 8, 2021
    The Hub

    The time Terry Pratchett’s German publisher inserted a soup ad into his novel.

    By Jonny Diamond  October 4, 2021
    The Hub

    It’s time to start naming a book’s translator on the cover.

    By Jonny Diamond  September 30, 2021
    Literary Criticism

    On Loving, Losing, and Returning to Poetry

    By Ari Honarvar  September 28, 2021
    Novelists

    Meet Granta’s Next Generation of Important Spanish Novelists

    By Tobias Carroll  August 23, 2021
    On Translation

    The Parallel Lives of Translators: On Mario Levrero’s The Luminous Novel

    By Annie McDermott  August 5, 2021
    Fathers and Daughters

    Translating at the Blurred Edge of Memoir and Fiction

    By K. E. Semmel  July 23, 2021
    On Translation

    The Mind-Expanding Practice of Translating Claudia Ulloa Donoso

    By Lily Meyer  July 15, 2021
    Lit Century

    The Ongoingness of War in Ismail Kadare’s The General of the Dead Army

    By Lit Century   June 29, 2021
    Memory

    Trust the Text: On Translating the Autobiographical Novel of Linda Boström Knausgård

    By Saskia Vogel  June 28, 2021
    Interview with an Indie Press

    Interview with an Indie Press:
    Archipelago Books

    By Corinne Segal  June 25, 2021
    Writers on Writers

    Yan Lianke on Intoxicated Revolutionaries and the Importance of
    “Literary Distance”

    By An Yu  June 21, 2021
    On Translation

    On the Diplomatic Mistranslation That Changed the Course of History

    By Anna Aslanyan  June 21, 2021
    Language

    On a Non-Native English Speaker’s Creative Journey to Authenticity

    By Dariel Suarez  June 17, 2021
    Otherppl

    “It’s Not Something I Would Recommend.” Lana Bastašić on Translating Her Own Book

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  June 16, 2021
    Science fiction

    Other Worlds, Other Voices: Reading Translated Science Fiction by Women

    By Sharmila Cohen  May 21, 2021
    5 Books You May Have Missed

    5 Books in Translation You May Have Missed in April

    By Bethanne Patrick  May 19, 2021
    On Translation

    In Praise of the Singular “They”
    in Literary Translation

    By Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler  May 14, 2021
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