Translating Myself and Others

"Lucid and provocative, this is full of rewarding surprises."

"Essays on translation might seem an unlikely conduit for a writer's most intimate thoughts and feelings, but Lahiri is an engaging guide, and her pensive ruminations provide a window into her soul ..."

"The collection is singular for Lahiri's ability to integrate the personal and the theoretical, drawing her examples from literature and from life ..."

"'Gramsci', she concludes, 'embodied and enacted translation both ordinary and extraordinary.' The same can be said of Jhumpa Lahiri."

"She didn't answer it in In Other Words and she doesn't here ..."

"Two essays originally composed in Italian are printed in the original in an appendix ..."

"contains a hope for the liberating power of language."

"Her candidness about the hardships of translation and her enthusiasm for its rewards make you want to hear more from these fascinating figures, who spend so much time in others' voices but have not lost the use of their own."

"From a writing perspective there is great joy and intrigue to be found in Lahiri's ruminations on self-translation, the idea of a living manuscript that inherently changes shape when translated from one language to another, both the new text and the original ..."

"One of Lahiri's great gifts as an essayist is her ability to braid multiple ways of thinking together, often in startling ways ..."