Is a text re-rendered a text diminished? Jorge Luis Borges thought not. A writer of fiction, poetry, and essays, the Argentine was also a prolific translator. He found pun not pith in the Italian ...

What do you do after you have collected writing samples for a thousand languages for the purpose of translation, and humans still rate the resulting translations a fail? Examine the failures, ...

When the British Museum launched its “China’s hidden century” exhibition last month, writer and translator Yilin Wang began getting confusing messages from her peers. The show, which featured 19th ...

Writer Carlos Fonseca and translator Megan McDowell discuss the collaborative metamorphosis of translating books. If you can't access your feeds, please contact ...

Law professor Mehrsa Baradaran has spent her career as a translator — literally and figuratively. “If I have a skill, it is that I can translate,” Baradaran said. “I speak Spanish. I speak Farsi. I ...

Writing and translating “The Backstreets,” a book about the oppressive environment faced by Uyghurs in China, was a danger to those involved. By Tiffany May Perhat Tursun was eager for his novel, “The ...

Agentic AI tools can translate more than just words — they can also incorporate video and audio sources to further refine and ...

More funding is being poured into startups focused on AI. DeepL, which builds automated text translation and writing tools that compete against the likes of Google Translate and Grammarly, said on ...

A translator has reached a settlement and received an apology from the British Museum months after her work was used in a temporary exhibit without her permission or credit. Translations by Yilin Wang ...