Transpacific Literary Project’s monthly column collects essays, translations, and hybrid works that grapple with language, culture, and translation from Asia.
A Filipino and a Chinese girl, both comfort women, find friendship in a piece of critical fabulation
How learning a third language became a place of reconciliation for my mother tongues.
Inside a Japanese Feminist Publishing House and Bookstore: An Interview with etc.books
By Emilia Wang
etc.books founder Akiko Matsuo on building a space for feminism and solidarity in Tokyo
I Want to Die but I Want to Translate Korean Literature: Why Translation Matters Just as Much as Eating Tteokbokki
By Anton Hur
On the difficulties of continuing being a translator, and why we persist
A Truku writer on his relationship with his tribe’s traditional craft
Mit Jai Inn’s sculptural paintings thrive in abstractions and calculated ambiguity
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