I tend not to review books in translation, but I did make an exception some years ago for a vigorous new English edition of Tolstoi’s War and Peace since it was touted as “more faithful” to the ...

According to an oft-cited and oft-lamented statistic, a mere 3% of books published in the U.S. are works in translation. In recent years, several independent publishers have strived to fill this ...

Spencer Ruchti, the author events manager at Third Place Books in Seattle, and Justin Walls, the coeditor of translation-focused pick-of-the-month series Du Mois Monthly, have launched the Cercador ...

August is a lot of things: it’s uncomfortably hot, it’s National Panini Month and it’s somehow already time for your kids to go back to school. But August is also Women in Translation Month, a yearly ...

While translators don't always receive credit on book covers, even though translators like Croft have argued for the practice, they do on these titles, including Federico Falco's A Perfect Cemetery ...

Haruki Murakami’s fifth book, Norwegian Wood, was a sensation in Japan when it was first released in 1987. Despite its success, it wasn’t widely available in English until 2000. The gap between its ...

There’s something almost otherworldly about Ann Leckie’s success. After the publication of her first book, 2013’s “Ancillary Justice,” she won the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke awards – something ...

In a precedential opinion (In re Douglas Wood (Serial 88388841 (TTAB, 15 August 2023) (Adlin, Larkin, English, ATJs)), the USPTO’s TTAB has upheld an examiner’s refusal to register a trademark on the ...

LULI AND THE LANGUAGE OF TEA By Andrea Wang Illustrated by Hyewon Yum A IS FOR BEE An Alphabet Book in Translation By Ellen Heck When people ask what got me started on my path to writing dictionaries, ...

To write, first and foremost, is to choose the words to tell a story, whereas to translate is to evaluate, acutely, each word an author chooses. Repetitions in particular rise instantly to the surface ...