Issue.31

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…