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Geoffrey Heptonstall

‘Trees at night are like an army marching.’ So begins Nicholas Mosley’s novel Accident. Trees are not blocks of wood...

Maggie Vlietstra

Translating the Oulipo: Georges Perec and Les mots croisés

Since 1960, the French Oulipo (short for Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle) has brought together an eclectic ...

Micaela Brinsley

an (un)faithful translation

The rhythm of Japanese moves much like the sound of water, languorous one moment, crashing into consonants the next...

Big Sky Promise

Whenever she thought of her first flight of 2021—after fifteen months as a bird with clipped wings—Nessa Fielder...

Twenty-six-year-old Rónán Joshua Fielder was struck for the first time in his sheltered life by a colpo di fulmine...

City by Astrid Velasco Montante

The deserted print, retraced, glances a sprout in the crack. Each street I recognize slants the memory which plays ...

Eponine Howarth

A Translation of A Translation

‘Y en el juego angustioso de un espejo frente a otro cae mi voz y mi voz que madura y mi voz quemadura...

Six Degrees of Stephen Sondheim

Ira Fielder could never be certain, but he chose to believe that their son Rónán had been conceived on Saint Valentine’s

"When the sirocco blows, it blows round" by Nino De Vita

Nino De Vita (b. 1950) is my cousin; that is, he’s my grandmother’s first cousin, and he looks alarmingly like her ...

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