Literature in translation Archives

Literature in translation

Spool of Thought

by Jon Fosse,

From Vaim, which will be published in October by Transit Books. Translated from the Norwegian by Damion Searls. So, I said, well here we are, I said, and I ran…

Rain Yet to Come

by Aratus,

From The Sky Is Our Song: The “Phaenomena” of Aratus, a third century bc poem, which was published in February by the University of Chicago Press. Translated from the Greek…

The Reenchanted World

by Karl Ove Knausgaard,Translated by Olivia Lasky, Damion Searls,

On finding mystery in the digital age

Walking On Two Legs

by Nicholas Dames,

Mathias Énard’s interrupted history

Le Drugstore

by Constance Debré,

From Name, which was published in April by Semiotext(e). Translated from the French by Lauren Elkin. Little bottles of neon-yellow liquid, the scent of pastis. Paregoric elixir, or tincture of…

Poetic License

by Walter Benjamin,

From “Notes on Baudelaire’s Parisian Tableaux,” which was published for the first time in English in the Fall 2024 issue of October. Translated from the French by Michael Krimper. Baudelaire…

Live and Learn

by W. G. Sebald,

From Silent Catastrophes, which was published last month by Random House. Translated from the German by Jo Catling. Few have reflected as thoroughly as Elias Canetti upon the fateful processes…

The Cold Stone

by Yuko Tsushima,

From Wildcat Dome, which will be published in March by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Translated from the Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda. She gets off the bus and walks for about…

Wavelength

by Orhan Pamuk,

By Orhan Pamuk, from Memories of Distant Mountains: Illustrated Notebooks, 2009–2022, which was published last month by Knopf. Translated from the Turkish by Ekin Oklap. I am sure that somewhere…

Day 121

by Solvej Balle,Translated by Barbara J. Haveland,

Collages by Catie O’Leary for Harper’s Magazine There is someone in the house. Heard as he moves around the room upstairs. When he gets out of bed or when he…