Bloody thrilled to share my translation of Evgenia Nekrasova’s horned tale on the perils of patriarchy. Deep gratitude to The Offing for giving this banger a home-> theoffingmag.com/translation/ki… 🖤🩸

Delighted to report that I have a new translation out in issue 53 of Washington Square Review on the nature of hope in a cold world. Give it a read 🖤❄️ washingtonsquarereview.com/evgenia-nekras…

Amazing :) Yet another reminder that YAHYA HASSAN, one of the most important poetry books of this century, is still without an English translation. I’ve got a full draft for any interested, courageous publisher.

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Everyone I met at Bread Loaf is my friend. Thank you for an unforgettable week Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences 🖤📚

“Translation, which is bilingualism in action, can bestow only dignity on languages; it knows nothing of shame.” A bilingual poet reflects on growing up with language shame in India and makes a powerful case for translation as dignity, not hierarchy. tinyurl.com/bdf8kpyd

My novel TOWARD ETERNITY is now available in paperback, *run* to your local bookstore to get a copy now!!! harpercollins.com/products/towar…

My essay is out: thedispatch.com/article/americ…

This month, we’re delighted to present ten different titles from ten different countries, including a lyrical litany of dreams from a Nobel laureate, a rollicking novel on poverty and police repression in a Brazilian favela, and much, much more… tinyurl.com/5n7szjts

"We need more translations to drown out the voices of those who try to rewrite our stories." Nashwa Nasreldin hits home with her call to amplify Middle Eastern voices and challenge hurdles to visibility: thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/b…

New today! Vernon Duke's richly detailed memoir of a life in emigration and of a dual career in the “serious” and “popular” music worlds. New edition includes an Introduction by Boris Dralyuk as well as his translations of Duke's original poems. shorturl.at/X2G37

Today The Dial Magazine... A little heatwave reading courtesy of Uzbekistani author Suhbat Aflatuni ☀️🔥☀️ thedial.world/articles/liter…

My 2025 Bread Loaf lecture "Why Do I Have to Do This?: Promoting Literary Translation" is now online Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences midd.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/…

Artem Chekh’s Rock, Paper, Grenade is a novel about how masculine social dynamics can transform characters’ emotional lives. At a time when anti-queerness in the US reaches frightening extremes, this translation is crucial: tinyurl.com/28r24k6u

Boris Dralyuk, acclaimed translator of authors as diverse as Andrey Kurkov, Maxim Osipov, and recently Vernon Duke, returns to our pages to talk about the role of the translator, ICE immigration raids in his city of LA, and more. Our candid interview: tinyurl.com/54n5jnar

Today our free newsletter readers received a poem by Jane Greer, who passed away on July 22 of this year. We are honored to have published one of her final poems, and to know that the issue reached her and brought her joy.

Москва 2025 — сон сумасшедшего, ты идешь по центру там ягодные сезоны, за ними вакансии оператора БПЛА, идут куклы на ходулях, рядом — вечер военной поэзии, экспозиция СЕМЬЯ СКВОЗЬ ВЕКА, огромный самовар (???), следом выставка эпизоды финской русофобии

Lovely review of my translation of Mathias Énard's THE DESERTERS. Some mention of the translation would have been nice! All those English words were chosen by me...

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Duke lapped up SoCal beach culture in the ‘60s! His take on the place is playful yet poignant, and utterly refreshing. I feel even the cut-rate Ginsbergs of Venice West would have appreciated this surprisingly sympathetic depiction of their squalid scene. Get the book!