By night, Bangalore’s first-world dreams flicker out, and in their place rises the familiar roar of the third world – endless construction, half-finished roads, dust in the headlights, a city...
Pomp and circumstance rule the Académie française, an eminent council of forty emerald-clad French literati (“the Immortals”) cast as lifelong guardians of the sacred language of Corneille and Zola. First...
Behind every translation there is a translator, a place where translation happens, a dictionary (possibly several), a lived experience of translation or working in and between different languages. We want...
As America narrows its linguistic identity by executive order, the fight over who gets to be heard —and in what language—returns with new urgency In 1780, one of America’s founding...
An interview with Jen Calleja—one of Britain’s leading translators—and Gregor Hens—one of Germany’s leading writers—about their new books, and their career-long collaboration Norman R Shapiro famously likened a good translation...
Translator speaks to four representatives on the linguistic frontline Much has been written in recent years about Vladimir Putin’s imperial ambitions in Ukraine. What this sometimes obscures is the fact...
