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Translating into English

Eat Me

From translations into English of dishes served at 274 restaurants in Seoul, South Korea. The list was compiled by the Korea Tourism Organization and included in a report that suggests…

Regime Changes

by Lamis Omar,

From emails sent last year, purportedly to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, by Lamis Omar, a Ph.D. student working as his translator. The emails were among hundreds recovered by WikiLeaks and…

The servile path

by Michael Scammell,

Translating Nabokov by epistle

Pulp diction

by Stefan Hammond, Mike Wilkins,

Lost in translation

by Harper’s Staff,

Vietnam’s essential phrases

by Harper’s Staff,

The Great Mokusatsu Mistake

by William Jeremiah Coughlin,

Was this the deadliest error of our time?

After hours

by Harper’s Staff,

The cause of alarm

by Harper’s Staff,

He forgot

by Harper’s Staff,

Over the entrÃ©e

by Harper’s Staff,

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