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A Global Perspective on a Global War

December 07, 2014 |

Multilinguals with multiple personalities, bookish perfume, and more

December 05, 2014 |

Patrick Modinao. Photo by Catherine Hélie / Courtesy Editions Gallimard

Modiano’s Story

December 01, 2014 |

Barracks, Tule Lake Relocation Center, 2001

Revisiting Tule Lake

November 26, 2014 |

MIa Couto

Building linguistic worlds, inclement weather resources, and more

November 21, 2014 |

Blue wrinkled tarp. Photo by Pink Sherbet Photography

On Translation, Interviews

An Eloquent Vernacular: Robert H. McCormick Jr. on Translating Évelyne Trouillot

November 18, 2014 |

Berlin Wall. Photo by Joede Sousa.

Literature since the Fall, the end of Glas publishing, and more

November 14, 2014 |

Paul Celan

Paul Celan Translating Others

November 11, 2014 |

Maaza Mengiste

Goodreads Choice Awards, French translation residency, and more

November 07, 2014 |

Street of Thieves

November’s New Translations

November 04, 2014 |

Mia Couto receiving the Neustadt feather. Photo by Vanesssa Rudloff.

The Neustadt Festival, Halloween literary treats, and more

October 31, 2014 |

The variegated books Biblioteca Amigos Library offers escape and enrichment.

The Home of Hope: Biblioteca Amigos Library

October 29, 2014 |

Statue hand writing. Photo by Marsha Brockman/Flickr

Like Rain That Falls: 10 Truisms of Translation

October 28, 2014 |

Meshack Asare

News and Events

Meshack Asare Announced as the 2015 Winner of the Prestigious NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature

October 24, 2014 |

HarperCollins Germany, weird and wonderful libraries, and more

October 17, 2014 |

Colette as Le Petit Faune in Le désir, la chimère et l’amour at the Théâtre des Mathurins, Paris, 1906. Source: Little Penny Dreadful.

Translating Colette

October 14, 2014 |

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