Skip Navigation
Translation
April 2, 2024
Lily Meyer
Jennifer Croft’s Hunt for a Missing Author
When a vaunted writer goes missing in the forest, her translators search for her—and for the meaning of their craft.
August 28, 2017
Saul Austerlitz
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
Jo Livingstone
How will the foreign press translate Trump’s inauguration speech?
December 4, 2015
Alex Shephard
American publishers put out significantly fewer works in translation in 2015.
January 14, 2015
Jeet Heer
Found in Translation
Arthur Goldhammer is America's finest bridge to French culture
June 27, 2013
Vladimir Nabokov
From the Stacks: “The Art of Translation”
August 4, 1941
November 26, 2000
Elizabeth Hardwick
The Disabused
A Review of Stories by Anton Chekhov. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
November 25, 1956
James T. Farrell
Writers with Few Readers
August 4, 1941
Subscribers Only
Vladimir Nabokov
The Art of Translation
On the sins of translation and the great Russian short story.
Subscribers Only
November 16, 1937
Kenneth Burke
Reading While You Run
An exercise in translation From English to English

Our Writers

Kate AronoffClimate & Energy
Matt FordLaw & The Courts
Melissa Gira GrantLGBTQ Rights
Jason LinkinsPower & Plutocracy
Timothy NoahPolitics & Economy
Ellie Quinlan HoughtalingBreaking News
Edith OlmstedBreaking News
Hafiz RashidBreaking News
Greg SargentPolitics & Democracy
Grace SegersCongress & Elections
Alex ShephardPolitics & Media
Heather Souvaine HornClimate Change
Michael TomaskyPolitics & Ideas
About The New Republic’s history