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ALEXANDRA REALE Translation is one of the great human arts. A piece of text is stretched, sifted, and strained, and when it emerges on the other side, it is meaningful…

SARAH GRACE VILLARREAL Whatever made me delusional enough to think I could successfully translate Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet into Spanglish quickly vanished once I made it through about half of the…

ALEXANDRA REALE In this issue, we talk to Conrad Spoke, a fifty-nine-year old factory worker and self-taught translator of Shakespeare. I first learned of his work while researching my undergraduate…

KATIE ROSENGARTEN The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning. – Mark…

RIZAL IWAN A few years ago, together with several other members of the Jakarta Players, I sat down for a first read of our next production, An Inspector Calls, J.…

KRIS KAGEI Status: I am on a lonely road and I am traveling. Mood: Blue Sitting in the Los Angeles sunshine almost makes me forget the heaviness that hangs in…

In this issue, we explore the ways in which we transform communication, specifically through translation & adaptation, in order to connect with disparate and different communities. As part of this…

ALEXANDRA REALE On a narrow strip of land in the southeast of Bangladesh, there is a collection of temporary shelters and tents that spans many miles. Within its confines are…

SWEDIAN LIE With each passing, there is two kinds of death. The first happens in the material realm; the finite deterioration of muscle and sinew fighting the eternally futile battle…

TANISHA HUMPHREY “Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” – Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas…