If I had to guess what percentage of the readings assigned in liberal-arts colleges and universities were translated works, I’d say at least 50 percent. While I have no specific data to back up such a ...

Jeff Glor talks to Nataly Kelly about "Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World." Jeff Glor: What inspired you to write the book? Nataly Kelly: This book was ...

From the Lutheran Bible to Tintin and from Aristotle to the Rosetta Stone, translation has shaped Mediterranean culture for centuries, despite the vast array of untranslatable material in existence.

Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything. By David Bellos. Particular Books; 400 pages; $20. To be published in America in October by Faber & Faber; $26. Buy from ...

The American legal system might officially operate in English, but it serves a multilingual and multicultural public. Every year more than 135,000 court proceedings require interpreting into more than ...

In the introduction to this sympathetic appreciation of translators and their work, Kelly and Zetzsche boldly state that: "Translation affects every aspect of your life." Through anecdotes grouped ...