Transpacific Literary Project’s monthly column collects essays, translations, and hybrid works that grapple with language, culture, and translation from Asia.
لكن المنـفى ينبت مرة أخرى كالحشائـش البرية تحت ظلال الزيتـون | Exile sprouts anew, like untamed grass beneath the shade of olive trees
A young woman struggles to stay in a loving relationship while being haunted by a past abuser.
Translating Anuradha Sarma Pujari’s My Poems Are Not for Your Ad Campaign
A Filipino and a Chinese girl, both comfort women, find friendship in a piece of critical fabulation
How learning a third language became a place of reconciliation for my mother tongues.
etc.books founder Akiko Matsuo on building a space for feminism and solidarity in Tokyo
On the difficulties of continuing being a translator, and why we persist
A Truku writer on his relationship with his tribe’s traditional craft
Mit Jai Inn’s sculptural paintings thrive in abstractions and calculated ambiguity
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