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Q&A: Jaquette Joins Words Without Borders

January 3, 2025

For English-speaking readers and translators of international literature, Words Without Borders (WWB) is a vital resource. Through its digital literary magazine, the nonprofit is the preeminent publisher of short translations…

Podcasts

Chinese sci-fi has crossed the translation barrier

April 5, 2024

Netflix's lavish new adaptation of Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem is the latest 'translation' of one of this century's best, and best-selling, sci-fi novels. In this episode, we track the…

Poetry

Palestinian

March 28, 2024

I was silent and nothing came of it. I spoke and nothing came of it. I cursed, I apologized, and nothing came of it.

Fiction

The People from the Dead Whale

March 7, 2024

I howled loudly and sat down. Neither my body nor my brain could handle the overwhelming vastness of this hope that now filled my head. Even knowing that most hope…

Fiction

How to Survive Underground

February 26, 2021

Faced with the unthinkable, we hoard, grow suspicious, act on fear; we also reinvent, build community, and create new conditions for surviving.

Fiction

A Ghost in Brazil

November 5, 2020

Kikuko Tsumura I was ever so keen to visit the Aran Islands, but unfortunately, I died before ever making it out of Japan. I was seventy-two at the time. My…

Articles

Ted Chiang Uses Science to Illuminate the Human Condition

May 13, 2019

I think science and religion could more peacefully coexist if we could agree that they are trying to answer different questions; science is investigating the question, “how does the universe…

Podcasts

The sci-fi of another language

March 19, 2019

The meaning of science fiction stories are often tough to pin down. Do they depict the future or the present? Are they personal or political? Imaginative or reality-based? Also, is…

Articles

Emily Wilson talks about translating ‘The Odyssey’

May 21, 2018

Maybe now, after all the media coverage of my work, interviewers might finally start asking cisgender men about how gender impacts their work. It would be about time

Podcasts

Jennifer Kronovet studied Yiddish so she could communicate with the dead

November 17, 2017

Kronovet had a ton of ideas for language-related podcast episodes. We eventually settled on her adventures with Yiddish. She shared these adventures with two other students of the language, Faith Jones and Samuel…

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