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[applause] [applause] [cheering] i dont want you to be intimidated, but i practiced these jazz hands for ten minutes backstage. Thats not actually a joke and that is the scary thing about it. Good evening and welcome to the 2018 pen america literary awards. Thank you for being here. [applause] honestly im thrilled to be here, very honored to celebrate the mission to protect Free Expression everywhere. Yes you should clap for Free Expression. It is honestly a weird time to be protecting Free Expr...

The third in a series of reading lists to celebrate Women in Translation Month, which is observed in August every year.

Literary translator Len Rix was presented with the Hungarian Golden Cross of Merit for his work in translating Hungarian literary classics into English.

Translation as a Collaborative Mode: An Interview with Sarah Booker Sarah Booker I met Sarah Booker virtually in 2018 when she spoke with a graduate student reading group about translating Cristina Rivera Garzas  The Iliac Crest. During her virtual visit, Booker was gracious enough to talk with us about her translation process, and I have kept an eye on her work ever since. In this interview, conducted over email, Booker tells WWB about what drew her to translation work, her praxis, and h...

An NYRB Classics Original The trouble begins in Venice, the first stop on Erzsi and Mihálys honeymoon tour of Italy. Here Erzsi discovers that her new husband prefers wandering back alleys on his own to her company. The trouble picks up in Ravenna, where a hostile man zooms up on a motorcycle as the couple are sitting at an outdoor café. Its János, someone Mihály hasnt seen for years, and he wants Mihály to come with him in search of Ervin, their childhood friend. The trouble comes to a h...

Don Mee Choi. Photo: © SONG Got. Courtesy of Wave Books. It’s a cliché to say that reading transports you, but in a year in which I spent most of my days indoors, shuffling between my bedroom and my living room, the books I read really were a lifeline, a portal to an outside world. In the weeks before New York shut down, I luxuriated in my subway reading, laughing aloud at Alma Mahler’s antics in turn-of-the-century Vienna in Cate Haste’s biography Passionate Spirit, savor...