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August 28, 2017
How Do You Make a Movie in a Language You Don’t Speak?
Filmmaker Joshua Z. Weinstein overcame social, cultural, and linguistic barriers to make his heartbreaking new film, "Menashe," about the Hasidic community.
January 20, 2017
How will the foreign press translate Trump’s inauguration speech?
December 4, 2015
American publishers put out significantly fewer works in translation in 2015.
January 14, 2015
Found in Translation
Arthur Goldhammer is America's finest bridge to French culture
June 27, 2013
From the Stacks: “The Art of Translation”
August 4, 1941
November 26, 2000
The Disabused
A Review of Stories by Anton Chekhov. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
November 25, 1956
Writers with Few Readers
August 4, 1941
The Art of Translation
On the sins of translation and the great Russian short story.
November 16, 1937
Reading While You Run
An exercise in translation From English to English

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