• On Translation

    On Translation

    In Words and Beyond Them: Jane Hirshfield on the Transformative Art of Translation

    “The act of translating opens the psyche’s innermost rooms to the unknown.”

     
    By Jane Hirshfield  April 9, 2024
    On Translation

    How Translating a Novel About Emily Dickinson Got Rhonda Mullins Through the Pandemic

    By Rhonda Mullins  March 18, 2024
    On Translation

    Caught Between Zodiacs: A Capricorn Daughter Remembers Her Translator Father

    By Grace Loh Prasad  March 8, 2024
    Kashmir

    Kalpana Raina on Translating Her Uncle Hari Krishna Kaul’s Stories of Kashmir

    By Kalpana Raina  March 6, 2024
    Bookselling

    Books for Indie Booksellers: On the Craft of Selling Books

    By Rachael Conrad  February 23, 2024
    On Translation

    Translating Race: Bruna Dantas Lobato on Jeferson Tenório’s The Dark Side of Skin

    By Bruna Dantas Lobato  February 14, 2024
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Palestinian Literature

    Blood on All Our Hands: Gunnhild Øyehaug on Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail

    By Gunnhild Øyehaug  February 12, 2024
    Poets in Conversation

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

    By Literary Hub  January 8, 2024
    On Translation

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

    By Heather Cleary  December 14, 2023
    Baseball

    Lost in Translation: Unpacking the Shohei Ohtani Scandal

    Emily Nemens On the All-But-Invisible Role of Interpreters, in Literature and in Baseball

    By Emily Nemens  April 8, 2024
    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

    Nick Romeo on the Tradition of European Explorers in Greece

    By Nick Romeo  November 2, 2023
    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
    Feature

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

    Kirmen Uribe on Life and Literature Between Languages

    By Kirmen Uribe  October 16, 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
    literary criticism

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

    By Marion Turner  December 11, 2023
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