'Everything Is a Translation and Nothing Is': Jennifer Croft on Memoir, Etymology, and Translation
“When you consider the plenitude of any word’s inheritance you might think all words are untranslatable,” writes Jennifer Croft in her debut memoir, Homesick. The problem of translation isn’t an abstract one for Croft: she is a translator of Polish, Spanish, and Ukrainian-language works including Olga Tokarczuk’s …