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“My Aim is the Abyss”: Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud’s The Messengers

Translator Edward Gauvin introduces Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud’s first novel and most nakedly Kafkaesque work, The Messengers, out this month from Wakefield Press.

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“A Book with a Fever”: Through the Looking Glass in Juan José Millás’s Only Smoke

By Robert Allen Papinchak

Spanish novelist Juan José Millás has a keen knack for high-concept metafiction that blends fantasy with reality. In From the Shadows, his first novel to be published in English, the protagonist, a forty-three-year-old…

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Springtime Travels around the World: Translated Children’s Books Out This Spring and Summer

By Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp

Your summer reading list is here: Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp recommends ten new books in translation for parents and children alike, from madcap picture books to YA speculative fiction.

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Anna and Her Daughter’s Partner

By Laksmi Pamuntjak

“In Indonesia there are only two categories,” you replied. “Pacar atau suami—boyfriend or husband.

Translated from Indonesian by Annie Tucker

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Purépecha Mother

By Gilberto Jerónimo Mateo

This poem from an indigenous Purépecha author celebrates the heroism of a seemingly ordinary woman.

Translated from Purépecha by Earl Shorris & Sylvia Sasson Shorris

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It’s a Chick, Not a Dog

By Jar al-Nabi al-Hilw

My mother knew he was walking after her. Almost certainly she knew. Do you want me to tell you why?

Translated from Arabic by Marilyn Booth

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A Dominican “Self-Portrait” to Inspire Students’ Self-Reflections

By Nadia Kalman

Which experiences have a greater influence on us—our successes, or the times when we've been hurt?

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Political Fictions: Contemporary Novels by Libyan Women

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Face Value: Translating Divergence

By Clare Richards

Clare Richards underscores the significance of D/deaf, disabled, and/or neurodivergent writers and translators presenting their community on their own terms.

Translation and Erasure

By Daniela Tiranti

The Hearing-Aid Brigade

By Adèle Rosenfeld

Translated from French by Jeffrey Zuckerman

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Against Silence: A Palestinian Writing Series

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Against Silence: Palestinian Writing in English

By Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

For as long as Palestinians have resisted their occupiers, a companion narrative questioning our very existence, a profoundly dehumanizing narrative rooted in the West’s still unexamined anti-Arab racism, has also thrived, writes Lena Khalaf Tuffaha.

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“A Book with a Fever”: Through the Looking Glass in Juan José Millás’s Only Smoke

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“The Heart’s Sharp Nib”: The Inner Worlds of Women in Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp

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Unconscious Spells: On Mansoura Ez Eldin’s The Orchards of Basra

By Alex Tan

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By Robert Allen Papinchak

“The Heart’s Sharp Nib”: The Inner Worlds of Women in Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp

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Unconscious Spells: On Mansoura Ez Eldin’s The Orchards of Basra

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“My Aim is the Abyss”: Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud’s The Messengers

“A Book with a Fever”: Through the Looking Glass in Juan José Millás’s Only Smoke

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Springtime Travels around the World: Translated Children’s Books Out This Spring and Summer

Anna and Her Daughter’s Partner

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Purépecha Mother

It’s a Chick, Not a Dog

A Dominican “Self-Portrait” to Inspire Students’ Self-Reflections

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Tripoli, 1911

Colonel Ali at Wadi Doum

1973–1978: The Green March

Face Value: Translating Divergence

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Remembering Dr. Refaat Alareer

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Libuše Moníková

Jim Tucker

Iman Mersal

Rashmi Baruah

Cristina Pérez Díaz

Libuše Moníková

Jim Tucker

Iman Mersal

Rashmi Baruah

Cristina Pérez Díaz

Book Reviews

“A Book with a Fever”: Through the Looking Glass in Juan José Millás’s Only Smoke

“The Heart’s Sharp Nib”: The Inner Worlds of Women in Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp

Unconscious Spells: On Mansoura Ez Eldin’s The Orchards of Basra

“A Book with a Fever”: Through the Looking Glass in Juan José Millás’s Only Smoke

“The Heart’s Sharp Nib”: The Inner Worlds of Women in Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp

Unconscious Spells: On Mansoura Ez Eldin’s The Orchards of Basra