According to an oft-cited and oft-lamented statistic, a mere 3% of books published in the U.S. are works in translation. In recent years, several independent publishers have strived to fill this ...

Spencer Ruchti, the author events manager at Third Place Books in Seattle, and Justin Walls, the coeditor of translation-focused pick-of-the-month series Du Mois Monthly, have launched the Cercador ...

The Times convened five notable translators who bring literature from other languages into English, and asked them about the joys and challenges of the job. There are as many ways of translating a ...

It’s strange that the literature of a language that rubs up against so many others should be as wary of translation as English is. For English speakers, there seems to be an expectation that the ...

While translators don't always receive credit on book covers, even though translators like Croft have argued for the practice, they do on these titles, including Federico Falco's A Perfect Cemetery ...

This World Book Day, we discuss the oft-overlooked art of literary translation and the future of the practice with translator ...

There’s something almost otherworldly about Ann Leckie’s success. After the publication of her first book, 2013’s “Ancillary Justice,” she won the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke awards – something ...

In a precedential opinion (In re Douglas Wood (Serial 88388841 (TTAB, 15 August 2023) (Adlin, Larkin, English, ATJs)), the USPTO’s TTAB has upheld an examiner’s refusal to register a trademark on the ...

Haruki Murakami’s fifth book, Norwegian Wood, was a sensation in Japan when it was first released in 1987. Despite its success, it wasn’t widely available in English until 2000. The gap between its ...

LULI AND THE LANGUAGE OF TEA By Andrea Wang Illustrated by Hyewon Yum A IS FOR BEE An Alphabet Book in Translation By Ellen Heck When people ask what got me started on my path to writing dictionaries, ...

To write, first and foremost, is to choose the words to tell a story, whereas to translate is to evaluate, acutely, each word an author chooses. Repetitions in particular rise instantly to the surface ...