Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat and Make It Scream, Make It Burn by Leslie Jamison.
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The Art of Translation: Many Englishes, Many Chineses
A translator examines the many shapes a language can take, and how cultural influence and interpretation can affect the translation process.
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How Do You Translate a Gunshot? Charlie Hebdo, Francophone Culture, and the Translation Conundrum
In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, a French scholar and literary translator discusses the need for translators to be well versed in intersectional knowledge of culture and history.
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The Translation Tango: On Being an Emerging Translator
A young translator recalls attending the 2014 American Literary Translators Association conference, and her discovery of how deeply personal the craft of translation can be.
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What Is Written for You: From Starvation to Salvation in Bulgaria
An American expat details her experience as a translator of Bulgarian literature.
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Instinct, Energy, and Luck: An Indie-Publisher Roundtable on Literature in Translation
Five editors of independent presses specializing in translation discuss how they find new work from around the world, the challenges they face as publishers, and the future of literary translation.
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
With so many good books being published every month, some literary titles worth exploring can get lost in the stacks. Page One offers the first lines of a dozen recently released books, including Dan Chiasson's Where's the Moon, There's the Moon and Monika Fagerholm's The American Girl, as the starting point for a closer look at these new and noteworthy titles.
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