The Hopscotch Translation editorial team shares their recommendations of some reading highlights from 2025 and previews a handful of titles to look forward to in the new year.
Hopscotch Editors’ 2025 Roundup
Translations Come and Go, Racism Remains
Santiago Artozqui assesses the linguistic strategies and sociohistorical stakes involved in retranslating Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel «Gone with the Wind» into French in 2020.
Translation is Like…
Talbot S. Hook ponders the widespread tendency to define translation in comparative or metaphorical terms and asks if there is really an alternative that would benefit readers.
Translating the Elliptical
Shushan Avagyan makes an urgent case for preserving the abundant ellipses when translating Zabel Yesayan’s «Averagnerun mej» (1911), an account of massacres in Ottoman Turkey.
Bringing Godzilla to the Village and Other Devastations
James Richie details the process of bringing Mexican poet Víctor Cabrera’s recent chapbook «A Village Devastated by Godzilla» into English in this cinematic translator’s note.
The Visitor Peering over My Shoulder
Jean-Yves Masson reveals what it can mean for a translator to be haunted by an author, in this intimate account of his affinity with the Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
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