Editor's note: This essay was delivered at the panel “Teaching Translation in the Workshop,” organized by Douglas Unger and with presentations by Jason Grunebaum, Becka McKay, Malena Morling,…

I started teaching the Icelandic Sagas just over twenty years ago. I had read some of them as a student, and though they didn’t feature in my research when I did my doctoral thesis, I was glad to…

With this post we launch our new series on teaching in translation. Whether teaching in their areas of specialization or shouldering introductory world literature courses, teachers at all levels face…

Edith Grossman—the renowned translator of Gabriel García Márquez and Miguel de Cervantes—makes a passionate case for the recognition of literary translation as a nuanced and necessary art.

In my first post, I suggested that translators' efforts in the sphere of education might have a transformative effect on the understanding and appreciation of the work of translation. In my second,…

In a previous post, I suggested that the covers of books make for rather poor soil in which to cultivate an appreciation for translated contemporary literature among the general English-reading public.…

The general membership meeting of the American Literary Translators Association's annual conference in October of this year went smoothly until the final item of business. The members present were…

In this essay, Alexei Bayer writes about his first and second languages, translating into English, and being translated into his native Russian.

Alexander Cuadros reports from Brazil's Festa Literária Internacional de Parati (FLIP).

Nouri Gana talks to Hisham Mattar about poetry, beards, and his novel In the Country of Men.

Lex and I came to the strange realization that we, and Alejo Carpentier, had effectively been censored by the United States government.