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Believe the hype: literature-loving Americans are currently living in a golden age of translation. But what is translation? And how did it get so gilt? In 2008, the omnipotent demi-gods… Read more »

This was the month that people began to suspect that terrorists had infiltrated Middle America, set up under- ground tunnels in the rural areas, like gophers. During any moment, it… 1 / Read more »

The Book of Khalid, the first Arab-American novel, stands as the foundational text of Arab-American literature, despite having been out of print in the United States since its first publication… Read more »

Can you describe some of the challenges you faced in translating this title? By all appearances a crime novel, the real mystery of Brenner and God isn’t located in how… Read more »

Believe the hype: literature-loving Americans are currently living in a golden age of translation. But what is translation? And how did it get so gilt? In 2008, the omnipotent demi-gods… Read more »