Ksenia Buksha / Courtesy of the author With apologies to Raymond Carver, what do we translate when we translate literature? What are we doing? And how do we do it? There ar...

Photo: Creawebpro / Pixabay In this short excerpt from the early pages of Marguerite Duras’s celebrated work of autofiction, The Lover, Duras looks back to her crossing...

Raboni in the 1990s / Photo by Carla Cerati / Courtesy of giovanniraboni.it In memory of Giovanni Raboni & Vinio Rossi   1 Some thirty-five years ago,...

Translating poetry is impossible in the sense that prose works can be translated (not to speak of the translation of nonliterary texts). But re-creating poetry in a different language is always possi...

Top right: Ben Faccini / Courtesy of English PEN. Bottom right: Kelsey Madsen Ben Faccini is a novelist, writer, and translator based in London. He was born in England and brought up in France and It...

This poster was published in a special issue of Rocinante in 1971. The entire issue was dedicated to Valdivia on the second anniversary of her death. Click here to read five poems by Rit...

Photo by Jonathan Armstrong Translator Allison Markin Powell discusses her most recent project, The Nakano Thrift Shop, and provides some insight into her approach to t...

The dog days of summer are upon us, and there’s no better way to pass through the longer days than curling up with a book in the shade. If you’re looking for some words to keep you company, there are...

Six years after its initial French publication, Luis de Miranda’s novella Who Killed the Poet? (Qui a tué le poète?) is being translated into English and multiple other language...

Drawing by Lea Goldberg / Courtesy of Tuvia Ruebner Lea Goldberg (1911–1970), preeminent, versatile, and prolific writer of modern Hebrew letters, produced in her lifetime poetry that was characteriz...