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.
Two Yunping Xue poems in translation
Could you announce to the world "the loner is me"?
Italian poems about love, loss and the sea translated by Amy Newman
Snow, graves and time passing. Perfect poems for the approaching winter.
French poem from 1836 translated anew
An interrogation of what consumes us and what we can overcome.
Four Moon Bo Young Poems Translated from Korean
Four shattering poems translated from the Korean by Hedgie Choi.
Poem ‘A Question of Lust’ translated by Lupita Eyde-Tucker
"A Question of Lust" is a Spanish poem by Oriette D'Angelo translated by Lupita Eyde-Tucker. The piece is about love, memory and the ache of...