Spanish Poet Eva Baltasar Tackles the Lesbian Parenting Novel With ‘Boulder’
With Boulder, Eva Baltasar lays bare with her incisive power of observation and blade-like prose the unpleasant realities of parenthood.
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Spanish Poet Eva Baltasar’s Novel ‘Permafrost’ and the Art of Translation
Eva Baltasar’s Permafrost is an aesthetic novel that underscores the magnificence of a poet successfully translating poetic awareness into prose.
Bringing Forth the Male Gaze in ‘Preeto & Other Stories’
The male writers in the anthology, Preeto & Other Stories, have been selected because each wrote extensively, if sometimes idealistically and sentimentally, about women.
On Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters on Loss: ‘The Dark Interval’
Letter-writing allowed Rainer Maria Rilke to turn intimate one-on-one communication into a carefully-crafted artifact in its own right that transcended time itself.
Short Stories: Women in Translation
To celebrate Women in Translation month, we bring short stories (and a novel that's like a collection of short stories) by women in translation: Olga Tokarczuk; Sayaka Murata; Mahasweta Devi; Malika Moustadraf; Dorthe Nors.
The Translators of ‘Thousand and One Nights’ Were Unquestionably Thieves
Marvellous Thieves notes that each interpreter's acts of plagiarism, theft, and recreation are nearly as interesting as the tales themselves.
Celebrating the Art and Spirit of Literary Translation NEA Style
The translation of literature is equal parts art, psychology, technical skill and spirituality – and it brings humanity closer together.
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