Why This Poet Declared War on Her Own Book
When M. NourbeSe Philip’s work on a slave ship massacre was translated without her consent, she didn’t recognize it anymore. Who ultimately owns the stories we tell?
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How Canada Accidentally Helped Crack Computer Translation
A technological whodunit—featuring Parliament, computer scientists, and a tipsy plane flight
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What Is the Point of Literary Translation?
Translators may alter the composition of a line, a paragraph, or a stanza. But when do their choices overstep, and where do the changes stop?
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How One Translator Brought Quebec’s Greatest Authors to English Canada
For Sheila Fischman, translation represents the hope that our country’s fractured identity can be healed by understanding how others see the world
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Speaking in Tongues
A bold first novel reshapes language for the surveillance era
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Gained in Translation
Most novelists who are fortunate enough to have had their novels translated into other languages are also fortunate that they are unable to read those languages. I have a closet …
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