Jess Jensen Mitchell is lured into the weird and wild world(s) of translation multiples, the genre that Kasia Szymanska identifies and explores in her new book of the same name.
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Quotidian Violence
Michelle Mirabella foregrounds different forms of violence in Marília Arnaud’s story collection «The Book of Affects», translated from the Brazilian Portuguese by Ilze Duarte.
211 grams
Samuel Martin reviews Batool Abu Akleen’s «48Kg.», the masterful English-language début by a young poet from Gaza intent on recording and outliving the genocide of her people.
Writer, Translator, Sorceress
Elena Schafer celebrates Jenny McPhee’s retranslation of Elsa Morante’s «Lies and Sorcery» long after a controversial first translation clouded the novel’s reception in English.
A #MeToo Classic
Yooj Chun celebrates the achievement of Taiwanese writer Lin Yi-Han, whose novel «Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise», translated by Jenna Tang, tells a story too little heard.
Translators take over the novel
Kasia Szymanska plunges into the forest of Jennifer Croft’s «The Extinction of Irena Rey» in order to explore the novel’s boldly imaginative portrait of a translator ecosystem.
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