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Making texts that are potentially wrong or slippery keeps me heedful of officious frames of correctness. ...read more

Just as the chameleon gains its identity by its precise act of mimicry, the translator begins to build a style through the words of others. ...read more

“We’re asking ourselves: Can we start the new academic year with a more global perspective?” ...read more

In the midst of a pandemic defined by isolation, our second Poems in Translation Contest brought together 935 poems from 448 poets and 87 countries, translated from 58 languages. ...read more

“Paraguayans frequently reclaim their Guaraní past while fervently rejecting Guaraní people in the present.” ...read more

“Her boyfriend soon showed himself for what he was: a possessive, jealous, and violent man.” ...read more

“Good” has become loaded with the binary it establishes and the archetypes it assumes. ...read more

Thanks to this phone call from a stranger (a device one often encounters in Murakami’s work), Murakami gained an ally with whom he would work for more than a quarter of a century. ...read more

Tobias Carroll recommends exciting new and forthcoming books in translation from Mexico, Japan, Germany, South Korea, Russia, and Sweden. ...read more

“Usually there is no time to be moody, only the slap and the dash and the drill and the dig, you dig?” ...read more