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Language and Translation
Interviews with scholars of language and translation about their new books.
April 19, 2026
The Long War of Ideas
In the wake of the September 11 attacks, US officials identified the so-called battle for hearts and minds as the “second front” in the war on terror.…
April 18, 2026
The Seekers
The seekers in these stories travel through worlds both ancient and modern, worlds of symbol and fantastical allegory, on their paths to greater truth…
April 18, 2026
Thanatographies
Yanara Friedland is a writer, translator, and educator born in Berlin. She is the author of Uncountry: A Mythology (2016) winner of the Noemi Press Fi…
April 14, 2026
Third Ear
This illuminating book Third Ear: Reflections on the Art and Science of Listening (Catapult, 2025) weaves personal stories of a multilingual upbringin…
April 10, 2026
Ted Goossen on translating Hiromi Kawakami’s “Third Love"
Translator Ted Goossen talks about everything from first landing in Japan in 1968 to the differences between translating Haruki Murakami and Hiromi Ka…
April 9, 2026
Panini's Perfect Rule
Panini’s Ashtadyayi is one of the most famous works in Sanskrit, a so-called “linguistic machine” that, through its 4,000 words, allows someone to gen…
April 7, 2026
Older Adults Learning English in Berlin
In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast Dr Hanna Torsh talks to Katharina Gensch (University of Hamburg) about her new paper "English lan…
April 6, 2026
Yiddish Children’s Literature and Jewish Modernity
Scholars are only beginning to consider the corpus of nearly one thousand extant books, as well as several periodicals, that constitute the Yiddish ch…
April 6, 2026
Naming New Things and Concepts in Early Modern Science
Naming new discoveries is central to science, and for centuries, Latin dominated this process. The resulting terminology still shapes modern science, …
April 3, 2026
Property of the People
"Honoured Investors, As Zhongfu Group enters its eighth decade, we are pleased to announce the acquisition of two famous coal mines. These assets fur…
April 2, 2026
Bangladesh in Anglophone and Vernacular Literature
Bangladesh in Anglophone and Vernacular Literature: Cultural Imaginings of a Postcolonial Nation (Routledge, 2025) illuminates individual and collecti…
March 31, 2026
Teaching English Pronunciation
In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast Dr Hanna Torsh talks to Lindsay McMahon, founder of the All Ears English Podcast, about pronunciat…
March 27, 2026
Yiddish in Israel
The new book Yiddish in Israel: A History (Indiana UP, 2020) challenges the commonly held view that Yiddish was suppressed or even banned by Israeli a…
March 27, 2026
Troubled Lands
Why Did Langston Hughes's "Troubled Lands" Go Unpublished for Nearly a Century?: A Conversation with Ricardo Wilson A landmark book—the first complet…
March 21, 2026
The Erasure and Revitalization of Indigenous Cultures and Languages
Lorena Sekwan Fontaine and Adam Muller, eds., The Erasure and Revitalization of Indigenous Cultures and Languages: A Special Issue of Genocide Studie…
March 21, 2026
Why Q Needs U
Every letter you’re reading right now has a fascinating story to tell, having been on a long linguistic, historical, political and social journey. The…
March 20, 2026
Hiromi Ito, "The Thorn Puller" (Stone Bridge Press, 2022)
Hiromi Ito author of The Thorn Puller (originally published in Japanese as Toge-nuki Jizo: Shin Sugamo Jizo engi) came to national attention in Japan…
March 12, 2026
For the Love of Tamil
For the Love of Tamil celebrates the life and work of E. Annamalai (born 1938), the most prominent Tamil linguist of his generation. Spanning six deca…
March 8, 2026
The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City
The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City (SUNY Press, 2025) offers a new look at over a century of Yiddish culture in New York City. Author …
March 6, 2026
Autotheories
A transdisciplinary array of authors offering a new frame of reference for autotheory and its genre-bending synthesis of autobiography and critical th…