Draw a circle around yourself/ and pray seventy years/ for rain that it might come/ and for the melody.
Aleš Šteger’s The Word Bare translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry
With a face To the sky. It starts to rain. The bare word Slowly sinks in The dug-up mud.
A Love Letter to Translation
Three translators on why the art of translation is close to their hearts.
Two Andra Schwarz poems translated from the German by Caroline Wilcox Reul
Short poems that remind you "there is nothing that is holding you".
Five Poems by Kim Myŏng-sun, Translated from the Korean by Eunice Lee
Should you rise up to Heaven or should you sink into Hell?
Creating Space, Translating Silence: An Interview with Katie Shireen Assef
First-time book translator tells the story of bringing Valérie Mréjen's "Forêt noire" into English.
Review of Crossing by Pajtim Statovci
This book offers a look at the nuance of experience and is heartbreakingly truthful, violent and at times truly tender.
Three poems by Ágnes Kali translated from the Hungarian
What are you most ashamed of, what do you want to take too far?
Review: The Selected Poems of Tu Fu by David Hinton
In a time when the news media is the main site of contention for how China gets represented, translations of classical Chinese poetry can easily...
Happy Holidays from Columbia Journal!
This holiday season, we're snuggling up with good books and dreams for the new decade. In case you're as much a fan of nostalgia as...
Review: The Story of a Goat by Perumal Murugan
Perumal Murugan grew up in a family of farmers in Tamil Nadu. He is one of India’s most well-known literary writers, having produced ten novels and...
Five fatrasies from the city of Arras
The fatrasie was written sometime between 1250 and 1300. For the first time in English, read these short excerpts translated from the French.