Tag: translation

Columns

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.

Unfinished Works

Nuno Ramos

April 19, 2023

Notes of the Brazilian artist Nuno Ramos.

The Stranger Within

Abdelkebir Khatibi

March 22, 2023

The exile in the language of the colonizer.

From the Deep Forests and Seas of Yambaru

Shun Medoruma

January 19, 2023

Against the U.S. military presence in Japan.

Toothache, Bleeding, Farewell

Miljenko Jergović

November 17, 2022

A personal history of the Siege of Sarajevo.

Letters and Fists

Eka Kurniawan

October 17, 2022

The literary gems of Eka Kurniawan.

Cinema Is Never on Time

A. S. Hamrah

September 06, 2022

On the late film critic Serge Daney.