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Remembering the Great Manuel Puig, Cosmopolitan Chronicler of the Everyday

Remembering the Great Manuel Puig, Cosmopolitan Chronicler of the Everyday

Suzanne Jill Levine on Knowing and Translating One of Latin America’s Finest 20th Century Writers

By Suzanne Jill Levine | June 30, 2025

A Room of One’s Own: On Finding Beauty and Inspiration in Meditation

A Room of One’s Own: On Finding Beauty and Inspiration in Meditation

Leanne Ogasawara Considers the Importance of Stillness and Contemplation For Writers and Translators

By Leanne Ogasawara | November 6, 2024

Why Close Reading is An Essential Part of Literary Translation

Why Close Reading is An Essential Part of Literary Translation

Damion Searls on What Emerging and Established Translators Can Learn From a Careful Examination of Texts

By Damion Searls | October 29, 2024

Footnotes All the Way Down: How Russian Poetry Mines the Past to Reveal the Present

Footnotes All the Way Down: How Russian Poetry Mines the Past to Reveal the Present

Forrest Gander Remembers Two Innovative Moscow Poets, Nina Iskrenko and Alexander Yeremenko

By Forrest Gander | October 1, 2024

Life After Kafka"> Bringing Felice Bauer to Life in Magdaléna Platzová’s <em

Bringing Felice Bauer to Life in Magdaléna Platzová’s <em

Life After Kafka">

Life After Kafka">Bringing Felice Bauer to Life in Magdaléna Platzová’s Life After Kafka

Alex Zucker on the Importance of Style and Voice in Literary Translation

By Alex Zucker | August 9, 2024

It’s Time We Added Full Credit Pages to Books

It’s Time We Added Full Credit Pages to Books

Maris Kreizman on the Importance of Acknowledging the Labor That Goes in a Single Title

By Maris Kreizman | June 6, 2024

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

By Jane Hirshfield | April 9, 2024

Lost in Translation: Unpacking the Shohei Ohtani Scandal

By Emily Nemens | April 8, 2024

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

By Bruna Dantas Lobato | February 14, 2024

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

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

Fear of Indirect Contact: Todd Portnowitz on Translating Jhumpa Lahiri

Fear of Indirect Contact: Todd Portnowitz on Translating Jhumpa Lahiri

"We resent that there’s an interpretive element to translation."

By Todd Portnowitz | October 10, 2023

Enduring Epics: Emily Wilson and Madeline Miller on Breathing New Life Into Ancient Classics

Enduring Epics: Emily Wilson and Madeline Miller on Breathing New Life Into Ancient Classics

Circe Talks to the Translator of The Iliad">The Author of Circe Talks to the Translator of The Iliad

By Emily Wilson | September 26, 2023

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

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

On the intersection of German translation, East Bloc punk rock, and Hunter S. Thompson

By Tim Mohr | May 15, 2023

Bookworm in a Chrysalis: How Language Acquisition Nourishes a Love of Literature

Bookworm in a Chrysalis: How Language Acquisition Nourishes a Love of Literature

Natasha S. on Being a Multilingual Reader and Writer

By Natasha S. and Larissa Kyzer | April 19, 2023

Spokesperson, Intellectual, and... More? On the New and Shifting Role of the Translator

Spokesperson, Intellectual, and... More? On the New and Shifting Role of the Translator

Lawrence Venuti Considers the “New Visibility” of Literary Translation

By Lawrence Venuti | April 5, 2023

In Vigdis Hjorth's Norway, Perfect Happiness Amounts to Complacency

In Vigdis Hjorth's Norway, Perfect Happiness Amounts to Complacency

Charlotte Barslund on "A Social Democracy Fraying at the Edges"

By Charlotte Barslund | September 21, 2020

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