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Translation

workplace drama May 31, 2022

Racing Against Rivals and Robots on the Translation Assembly LineRakuten Viki’s army of volunteers just want to subtitle some K-drama in peace.

By Jennifer Zhan
sub standards May 31, 2022

Two Bilingual Comedians Try to Decipher Their Own SubtitlesSome jokes survive a translation. Others become “surprise eggs.”

By Hershal Pandya

localized listings May 31, 2022

Every Language Everywhere All at OnceAudiences love foreign TV and film. So do streamers. There’s just one little challenge.

By Rafael Motamayor
perfil May 9, 2022

Fernanda Melchor y la tragedia del machismoCon historias inspiradas en el crimen, la novelista arroja luz a los rincones oscuros de la masculinidad.

By Max Pearl
profile May 2, 2022

Fernanda Melchor Writes Tragic MachismoIn her crime-inspired novels, male fear and desire are two sides of the same coin.

By Max Pearl
in other words Dec. 7, 2021

What’s So Hard About Crediting Book Translators?Translations into English are expected to be seamless — but the people who do the work rarely get the attention or pay they deserve.

By Kira Josefsson
book review Oct. 28, 2021

Kwon Yeo-sun’s ‘Lemon’ Is a Murder Mystery That Refuses to Be SolvedThe novel by Kwon Yeo-sun tracks the aftermath of a teen girl’s murder, with three very unreliable narrators.

By Arianna Rebolini
fall preview 2020 Sept. 4, 2020

The Hardest Elena Ferrante Lines I’ve Translated“This is the problem with translation — you think, ‘Oh, wow, I could’ve done better here.’”

As told to Hillary Kelly
national book awards Oct. 8, 2019

Here Are Your 2019 National Book Awards FinalistsFeaturing Marlon James, Susan Choi, and more.

By Justin Curto
los espookys July 11, 2019

How Los Espookys Made Its Jokes Work in Two Languages, With Subtitles“It’s not an American show pretending to be a Latin American show. It’s both,” says Julio Torres.

By Jackson McHenry