Coming across new vocabulary is one of the great pleasures of translating, and I can’t help but share my delight in coming across the word srėbtuvė. A bit of...

I feel rather silly that I hadn't thought of looking for magpies on youtube before. After all, Pica Pica Press in interested in all things relating to its na...

Let me explain. These are nouns that are common in the sense that they are both masculine and feminine. (Ahem—some may actually remember the concept of mascu...

I’m afraid recent events are, as usual, intruding upon the subject of translation, or is it the other way around? But how could you possibly find a more appr...

My friend Giedrius Subačius asked me a question I ponder often: which books or writers I’ve translated were the most difficult? The glib answer is, the bad o...

Once again, the twenty-tome Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language has come to my rescue, this time cheering me with one of its examples for the word kliudyti...

Sidetracks are a professional hazard for a translator; after all, you need to know every last bit of it, don't you? Translating Jurgis Kunčinas's 1993 novel ...

"The councils which magpies appear to build together, at particular seasons, commonly called "folkmotes,'' are associated in the minds of many with superstit...