Review

Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood

Translator reviews an established Japanese translator’s debut novel and Boris Dralyuks’s translation of Alexander Voloshin’s mock epic poem....

The seams are the story: Translation, estrangement and the politicos of voice in ‘Taiwan Travelogue’

Translator reviews the winner of the National Book Award for Translated Literature Taiwan Travelogue (臺灣漫遊錄), by Taiwanese author Yáng Shuāng-zǐ is a postcolonial and feminist reimagining of Taiwan’s colonial past....

Le glossaire tardif: Dictionaire de l’Academie francaise

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...

Glossary As Archive: The Queer Arab Glossary

The Queer Arab Glossary is, first and foremost, an act of presence. In a world that often paints Arab societies with a broad brush of conservatism, this book insists that queerness...