Jon Fosse’s “Septology,” the seven-novel sequence about art and God that helped win its author last year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, stars two men and a dog. The men are both painters, and, ...

I don’t speak Spanish, but there I was, chattering away like I had spoken it my entire life. I was testing a new real-time translator coming to Google Meet video chats. The results, while not perfect, ...

In the sci-fi world crafted by Douglas Adams in “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,” you'd just slap a bright yellow Babel fish in your ear and simply be able to understand any mix of languages ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The biggest barrier between citizens of one nation to another isn't distance or a difference in culture: it's language. Sure, we can visit and ...

AI chatbots like ChatGPT have changed the way many of us work, thanks to their ability to quickly understand huge amounts of information. The chatbot’s versatility extends to a staggering number of ...

In The Philosophy of Translation, Damion Searls investigates the essential differences—and similarities—between the task of the translator and of the writer. By just about any measure, Damion Searls, ...