People should pay closer attention to our true state of being within and beyond our workplace.

People should pay closer attention to our true state of being within and beyond our workplace.

When I started my career as a professional literary translator, I began coming up against a mysterious “English reader” whom academics and editors kept referring to when they looked over my work, l…

October 7, 2025 – “Since turning sixty, I’ve thought about death every single day.”

September 26, 2025 – “ ‘Little Reunions ought to be burned,’ Eileen Chang wrote to her friend and literary executor, Stephen Soong, in 1976, the year she finished what would be her last novel.”

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The “Ueno Chizuko phenomenon” describes the popularity and influence of Japanese feminist scholar Ueno Chizuko in East Asia, particularly in China and South Korea, through translations of her work....

Writer and translator Alex Tan speaks to renowned Gazan poet Nasser Rabah on his new collection, Gaza: The Poem Said its Piece, selected and translated by Ammiel Alcalay, Emna Zghal, and Khaled Al Hil...

The Translator’s Voice is a column from editor Ian J. Battaglia, dedicated to global literature and the translators who work tirelessly and too often thanklessly to bring these books to the English-re...

The Translator’s Voice is a column from editor Ian J. Battaglia, dedicated to global literature and the translators who work tirelessly and too often thanklessly to bring these books to the English-re...

I have to look back across a foggy channel of my own to explain how I came to translate this classic Swahili novel. . .

Tiang allows readers to build trust with Shuang as a Dongbei-raised, Beijing-based writer who tells heart-felt stories with abundant humor and little outwardly emotional display.

In this episode, translator and debut novelist Anton Hur discusses his English translation of Your Utopia (Algonquin Books, 2024), a fantastical and moving collection by South Korean author Bora Chung...

Episode 6 of The Mynah Podcast with Jeremy Tiang

April 16, 2025 "I needed to maintain a critical distance and understand Ensign Wang as the product of a particular time and place, so as to avoid exoticizing him as simply 'a lunatic.'"

Presenting the jury’s shortlist of five books for the Baifang Schell Book Prize: Award for Outstanding Translated Literature from Chinese Language.

著名作家包括楊双子、李昂、馮光遠、林立青等40多人，今天齊聚立法院召開記者會，現場高呼「筆桿接力、罷免到底」、「罷免不適任立委是我們的義務」等口號，用行動挺罷免。

The Malaysian Communist Party’s insurgency is rendered in vivid detail by Fan, a member of the party’s guerrilla forces from 197...

BY FRANCHESCA VIAUD

JAY BOSS RUBIN <br> To be denied the ability to determine one’s fate and fulfill one’s potential is sometimes a societal theft, sometimes an imperial one, sometimes both. But ambition that holds no…

I found out only later that when my ma called Ensign Wang a lunatic, she’d meant it literally—he really was a mental patient.

A supportive ecosystem and eager audiences — both domestic and global — are boosting the soft power of illustrated narratives from Taiwan.