Expanded version of the essay “Translation as Storytelling” now out in This Is a Classic: Translators on Making Writers Global, edited by Regina Galasso (Bloomsbury)
This Is a Classic
Honorary Appointment, Freie Universität Berlin
Appointed to the August Wilhelm von Schlegel Visiting Professorship in the Poetics of Translation at Freie Universität Berlin for the Summer 2023 term
(Clipping from Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Feb. 9, 2023, p. 12)
Review / Mithu Sanyal, Identitti
“Kali Meets the Twitterati: On Mithu Sanyal’s Identitti” (translated by Alta L. Price), review published in Los Angeles Review of Books
Review / Violent Phenomena
“Harm Reduction in Translation: On Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation (ed. Kavita Bhanot and Jeremy Tiang)” / “Auf der Suche nach einem gewaltfreien Übersetzen. Zur soeben erschienenen Anthologie Violent Phenomena,” review published in RundUmschau #02 (ToledoTalks) in both English and German.
Review / Andrey Kurkov, Grey Bees
“Glimpses of Peace Only in Dreams: Andrey Kurkov’s Grey Bees” (translated by Boris Dralyuk), review published in The Rumpus
Interview / Orion Magazine
“The Metamorphosis Transforms with This Charming Translation”: Interviewed by Sumanth Prabhaker for Orion Magazine.
Interview / Tupelo Quarterly
“Walk I Must”: Interviewed by Tiffany Troy for Tupelo Quarterly
Translating Your First Magic Mountain
Lecture hosted by the Translation Initiative at Yale University
The Oxonian Review
“The Notes of Susan Bernofsky,” published in The Oxonian Review’s series, On Notes.
Interview / Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism
“Turn Up the Volume”: Interviewed by Molly Wagschal and Campbell Campbell for Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism
National Book Critics Circle Award Shortlist
Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser has been named a Finalist for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography.
