literary translation

A World in Crisis: Deep Vellum’s Best Literary Translations 2025

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...

MAY 9, 2025 • By Lara Vergnaud
The Art of Arabic Translation: An Interview With Roger Allen

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...

MARCH 14, 2025 • By Jonas Elbousty
Between Two Sieges: Translating Roger Assaf in California

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...

NOVEMBER 8, 2024 • By Zeina Hashem Beck
Bound Together: My Longings for Ishmael

Bound Together: My Longings for Ishmael

Albert Swissa reminds us that Isaac had a brother who was expelled and erased, with his mother Hagar,...

AUGUST 14, 2023 • By Albert Swissa
The Art of Translation is Akin to “Dancing on Ropes”

The Art of Translation is Akin to “Dancing on Ropes”

Deborah Kapchan reviews the new book on translation from Anna Aslanyan.

OCTOBER 10, 2022 • By Nawal Qasim Baidoun
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