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“One of Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of the Year”
“One of VULTURE’S 49 Books We Can’t Wait to Read”
“Wonderful. . . . through language, we come to know ourselves: Lahiri’s work shows how it is always possible to expand that knowledge”—Erica Wagner, Harper’s Bazaar UK
“[Lahiri’s] observations are as plentiful as they are enlightening.”—Juliana Ukiomogbe, Elle

“[Lahiri] is excellent. . . . Translating Myself and Others is a reminder, no matter your relationship to translation, of how alive language itself can be. In her essays as in her fiction, Lahiri is a writer of great, quiet elegance; her sentences seem simple even when they’re complex. Their beauty and clarity alone would be enough to wake readers up.”—Lily Meyer, NPR

“[Translating Myself and Others] is about the consequences of the apparently simple act of choosing one’s own words. . . . [the] book also contains a hope for the liberating power of language.”—Benjamin Moser, New York Times
“[Translating Myself and Others] movingly describes [Lahiri’s] history with translation from her experiences as an immigrant child . . . to her early literary-translation efforts and her eventual decision to move to Rome and learn Italian.” ― Vulture

“Poetic.” ― New York Magazine
“A wry collection.”—Adam Rathe, Town & Country
“Digestible and approachable. . . . the thought-provoking collection makes for a sharp and luminous exploration of Lahiri’s relationship to language, translation, and literature and made me want to finally tackle my goal of learning a second language.”—Jordan Snowden, Apartment Therapy

“Lahiri explores her relationship with literature, translation, and the English and Italian languages in this exhilarating collection. . . . Lucid and provocative, this is full of rewarding surprises.” ― Publishers Weekly, starred review

“A scrupulously honest and consistently thoughtful love letter to ‘the most intense form of reading…there is.'” ― Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“The collection is singular for Lahiri’s ability to integrate the personal and the theoretical, drawing her examples from literature and from life. . . . Lahiri writes so beautifully that this collection will have broad appeal for anyone interested in literary essays.”—David Azzolina, Library Journal
“[An] absorbing new collection of essays. . . . Translating Myself and Others is a subtle yet ultimately engrossing work, somewhat academic at times, yet infused with the kind of understated, often startling capacity for observation that has always been Lahiri’s literary superpower.” ― Bookpage

“Translating Myself and Others is a thought-provoking collection of essays about the art of modern translation.” ― Foreword Reviews

“Anyone interested in the art of translation will be engrossed by Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri”—Martin Chilton, The Independent
“Lahiri’s ruminations on translation are relatable and luminous. . . . This book embraces simplicity-in-complexity, making it appropriate for both the Lahiri devotee and the uninitiate.”—Carmen Acevedo Butcher, Christian Century
“[Lahiri] explores [translation] with her customary rigor and candidness in this new essay collection, featuring several pieces originally written in Italian and translated into English by Lahiri for the first time, an act of metamorphosis as dazzling to her as it is to the reader.” ― Chicago Review of Books

“Throughout these essays, it’s as if Lahiri, feeling misunderstood, were hoping to build a literary home for herself that is ample enough to accommodate her lives as author, translator, academic, and language learner. A home in which she can write, on her own terms, in whatever language she wants, and think, on her own terms, about whatever subject she wants.”—Julia Sanches, Astra
“The essays . . . are master classes in translation theory and in critical writing about translation. . . . fascinating and insightful writing.”—Lauren Elkin, The American Scholar
“These essays . . . demonstrate the depths of [Lahiri’s] love for her adopted language. . . . Readers will have a newfound appreciation of the translator’s ability to illuminate.”—Michael Margas, Shelf Awareness starred review

“In this collection of essays, Lahiri gives insights into her processes, as well as penetrating and perceptive thoughts on the act of translating that will be especially illuminating for readers who enjoy translated works.”—Joe Rubbo, Readings

“Jhumpa Lahiri is a marvel, a writer with the courage to renounce virtuosity for the sake of vulnerability, experiment, and growth, and it’s been wonderful to watch her love affair with the Italian language unfold. In these essays, she delves deep into the fertile interstices of and between languages, giving us a book rich with insights and pleasures.”―Susan Bernofsky, author of Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser
“A remarkable account of Jhumpa Lahiri’s journey from English to Italian and back. Her pages on the myth of Echo are the most poignant and eloquent account of the translator’s art that I have ever read.”―Michael F. Moore, translator of Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed
“With this collection of elegant essays, Jhumpa Lahiri makes her career as a writer of two languages and, increasingly, as a translator between them seem less an eccentric adventure than a necessary one. No man is an island―and no language, either.”―David Bellos, author of Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything
“In these stunning essays, Jhumpa Lahiri brilliantly investigates the fluctuating borders between writer and translator, language and identity, artist and art. Her intellectual and deeply personal inquiries―reminiscent of Hannah Arendt, Virginia Woolf, and Susan So