A World in Crisis: Deep Vellum’s Best Literary Translations 2025
This anthology, while celebrating last year's best literary translations, aims to highlight writing from and about a world in crisis.
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The Art of Arabic Translation: An Interview With Roger Allen
Yale scholar of Arabic language and literature Jonas Elbousty talks to one of the most prolific translators of the Arabic novel of the past 50 years.
Between Two Sieges: Translating Roger Assaf in California
Letters from a displaced Lebanese poet today to civil war-era actor-director Roger Assaf evoke Beirut in 1982, 2006 and 2024.
Bound Together: My Longings for Ishmael
Albert Swissa reminds us that Isaac had a brother who was expelled and erased, with his mother Hagar, from the house of his father.
The Art of Translation is Akin to “Dancing on Ropes”
Deborah Kapchan reviews the new book on translation from Anna Aslanyan.