Elton Uliana appreciates the simultaneous broad scope and translatorly insight of Daniel Hahn’s recent book «If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation».
The Hour Between Languages
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.
Hopscotch Summer 2023 Translators Forum
For our 2023 summer forum, we asked our peers to weigh in on the challenges posed to literary translation by the ongoing evolution of artificial intelligence.
Translation as Instrument of Empire
Joshua Martin Price elucidates the fraught role of translation in Europe’s colonization of the Americas, showing it to have been a significant weapon in the imperial arsenal.
En passant
Erín Moure summons the reader to be constantly attentive to the trembling movement of (and between) languages, in this nimble reflection on the notion of the “intranslatable.”
Fidelity Means a Million Infidelities
We are pleased to publish this discussion with translators Mark Polizzotti and Katrina Dodson from the “Colloquy: Translators in Conversation” event series at Unnameable Books.
