Tag: translation

Columns

the thing between the wall and my body

Ahmed Douma

May 19, 2026

Tracing the physics of incarceration.

Maximally Perverse Obscurantism

Paul Grimstad

January 29, 2026

There is something basically broken about “Schattenfroh.”

Superlatively, Actually Awake

Conor Truax

December 10, 2025

Solvej Balle’s petri dish of time and memory.

Innocence and Its Opposite

Ben Miller

November 04, 2025

Ronald M. Schernikau’s queer Bildungsroman.

Imperfect Pleasures

Adrian Nathan West

September 04, 2025

What if this was the same, but about me?

Missed Connections

Anabelle Johnston

August 29, 2025

The placeless ambiguity of Kyung-Ran Jo’s fiction.

Privileges of Misery

Max Pearl

April 26, 2024

The Obscene Bird of Night turns the upstairs-downstairs genre upside down.

Good Morning Gaza

Fady Joudah

October 25, 2023

On the untranslatability of Mahmoud Darwish’s “The Final Meeting in Rome.”

Grief’s Tentacles

Adam Morris

September 27, 2023

The unlikely charm of “The Love of Singular Men.”

Translating the Language of the Border

Gaby Del Valle

July 12, 2023

A memoir of working with—and against—the U.S. deportation machine.

Imaginary Current Events

Chris Marker

July 05, 2023

Chris Marker wore as many hats as he had pseudonyms.

A Luso-Tropical Holy Grail

Meg Weeks

May 25, 2023

A classic of Brazilian modernism gets its due in a new translation.