“Yellow Dust,” Tokyo, 2009 / Photo by OiMax / FlickrIn this short essay, one of Japan’s early avant-garde writers turns his attention to dust, asking, “Just what kind of game are you playing?”…
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Todd Fredson’s translations of francophone African, specifically Ivorian, poetic voices over the past decade mark an important contribution to…
Photo by Michel Banabila / FlickrDinosaurs
Each day, I drive beneath the shadow
of leviathan bones, concrete muscles
poured over rebar ribcage,…
Katie Gee Salisbury first came across Anna May Wong when she was doing a college internship and found an old black-and-white photo of the starlet…
Photo by Seong Ji Min Clayhouse Inc.Hwang Bo-reum’s debut novel, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, translated by Shanna Tan, was…
Photo by New Africa / Adobestock.comIn her column Untranslatable, Veronica Esposito considers why various words are so difficult to translate.…