John Taylor reflects on what he has gleaned (and what his own writing has gained) from the poetry of Lorenzo Calogero in the ten years since he first began translating his work.
“Lightness moved things”
Dirty Shirts & Bottle Tops
Samuel Martin examines Antonio Tabucchi’s French connections and savors two new books of dialogues between Tabucchi and his translators to mark the ten years since his death.
The Translator’s Guilt
May Huang explores various ways in which translation practice can be bound up with feelings of guilt that affect the translator’s relationship to their languages and home(s).
Translator, Academia, Opus Tertiary
Jack Rockwell weighs the pluses, pitfalls, and implications of two very different approaches to translating the notoriously difficult prose of Jorge Luis Borges into English.
What Process Insights Can Be Gleaned From Translation Manuscripts?
Mara Faye Lethem draws on translator David Rosenthal’s archive in Barcelona to explore the theoretical and pedagogical insights that await in the papers of other translators.
So, What Is It?
Translator Jessica Sequeira reflects on love, art, and Modernity in this introduction to the life and work of Chilean poet Manuel Magallanes Moure, author of «What Is Love?»
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