April 8, 2025

Carlo Acevedo and Kelsi Vanada on Writing and Translating Day’s Fortune/Fortuna del día

Kelsi Vanada and Carlo Acevedo offer insight into the writing and translation process and the value this bilingual edition brings to U.S. Spanish speakers.

March 24, 2025

Recovery Without End

Insights From a Medieval Mystic?

Hannah Lucas

Hannah Lucas explores the mystical experiences of Julian of Norwich during her illness in the 14th century and challenges modern wellness culture.

March 17, 2025

On Motherhood and the Literary Life

Emily Hodgson Anderson

Emily Hodgson Anderson explores the complex relationship between motherhood and writing, using Doris Lessing’s experiences as a focal point.

March 10, 2025

Illuminating The Running Flame

Fang Fang in Conversation with Michael Berry

More than twenty years after its initial publication in Chinese, The Running Flame is finally available in English translation. As the novel reaches a new group of readers, translator Michael Berry revisits the origins of the story with author Fang Fang, who in this interview, reflects on her work and the place of women in contemporary China.

March 3, 2025

Seven Must-Read Books for Women’s History Month 2025

Each March, we come together to honor and recognize the legacy of women in history, society, and culture and to reflect on the ongoing fight for gender equality. This year’s theme for Women’s History Month, “Moving Forward Together! Women Educating...

February 25, 2025

Nicole M. Brown in Conversation with Daniel Davis About We Are Each Other’s Business

In the 1960s and 1970s, the Welfare Rights Movement organized at both local and national levels, advocating for poor people’s inclusion, dignity, and autonomy. In We Are Each Other’s Business: Black Women’s Intersectional Political Consumerism During the Chicago Welfare Rights...

November 6, 2024

Lilit Žekulin Thwaites on Translating Crossing Waters by Luisa Etxenike

Lilit Žekulin Thwaites is an award-winning Australian literary translator of novels, short stories, poetry, and essays. Luisa Etxenike is an acclaimed author from the Basque Country whose works offer insightful, moving perspectives on unorthodox topics. They recently collaborated on an...

October 16, 2024

The War on Mothers

Gil Anidjar

Gil Anidjar argues that the abortion debate is a struggle over foundational values and a broader attack on mothers, their labor, and their societal role.

October 1, 2024

Lucina Schell on “Sangre” by Mercedes Roffé

Lucina Schell reflects on “Sangre” (“Blood”), a five-line poem by Argentine poet Mercedes Roffé that carries the emotional weight of a nation’s unresolved past.

September 24, 2024

Lawrence Schimel on Translating Music for Bamboo Strings by Carlos Pintado

In “The Challenge,” Cuban-American poet Carlos Pintado writes, in English translation by Lawrence Schimel: The distance between the rat and myself is minimal. She looks at the house from her smallness; I look at the house from my majesty. …...

September 19, 2024

Jenny Burton on Translating an Excerpt from Ansilta Grizas’s Un temporal

An excerpt of the Ansilta Grizas’s 103-page memoir Un temporal, originally published in Spanish by Ed. Entropía, was included in the anthology titled Constellation: Latin American Voices in Translation, recently published by Sundial House, a distribution partner of Columbia University...

September 17, 2024

Janet Poole on Translating Ch’oe Myŏngik

When Ch’oe Myŏngik was writing short fiction in the mid-twentieth century, he was known as a master of the detail. While other Korean writers of the time were cranking out dozens of pages of writing per week, often for serialised...