Moonlit Reads October is here, and with it comes the full moons that so many traditions look forward to—the Harvest Moon, the Hunter’s Moon, the Mid-Autumn Festival moon. This October, we gather under that glow with our feature, Moonlit Reads, to reflect everything about the moon and its power. At the middle of autumn, a slight ache often sets in. Perhaps it is the exhaustion of summer finally catching up with us, or the difficulty of saying goodbye to warm evenings, holidays

At Found in Translation , this September we celebrate food in translated literature. Meals in books are never just meals: they carry...

Literature, like food, is, in Terry Eagleton’s words, “endlessly interpretable,” and food, like literature, “looks like an object but is...

For much of literary history, translation has been the quiet art behind the louder world of authorship. It is an act of listening and re-speaking, of carrying meaning across the borders of language and culture. And while the names of male translators have often been preserved in marble and ink, women have been at work here, too — sometimes celebrated, more often erased.