The second episode of “On Translation” In “On Translation,” the third season of the podcast The Critic and Her Publics, Merve Emre convenes a panel of translators and publishers for a seven-episode series of conversations on literary translation. The panel discussions were hosted in 2024 by the … [Read more...]
Practical Translation: Proust
March 3, 2026 by
The first episode of “On Translation” In “On Translation,” the third season of the podcast The Critic and Her Publics, Merve Emre convenes a panel of translators and publishers for a seven-episode series of conversations on literary translation. The panel discussions were hosted in 2024 by the … [Read more...]
Is English a Monocrop?
March 3, 2026 by
The fourth episode of “On Translation” In “On Translation,” the third season of the podcast The Critic and Her Publics, Merve Emre convenes a panel of translators and publishers for a seven-episode series of conversations on literary translation. The panel discussions were hosted in 2024 by the … [Read more...]
Nothing ‘Normal’ Happens in “Orang-Orang Bloomington” by Budi Darma
March 3, 2026 by
Is the main character… alright? (Genuinely asking lol) I just finished this 212 page short story collection by Budi Darma and reading it felt like I had stumbled onto someone’s anonymous morally messy diary or like someone’s private Twitter account where they dump all their most … [Read more...]
Failed by Love and Life: How “Olenka” by Budi Darma Became My Favorite Read This Year
March 3, 2026 by
In 2024, for about a year, I got caught up in French and English academic journals as additional sources to prepare myself for earning a DELF B2 certificate and a bachelor degree. At the beginning of the year, I befriended bunch of French grammatical books and our relationship went very well to the … [Read more...]
