Jan Steyn is a scholar and literary translator working from Afrikaans, Dutch, English, and French. He is a lecturer in the Literary Translation MFA and the Department of French & Italian at the University of Iowa.

• Introduction Jan Steyn; 1. Solitude of the translator George Craig; 2. Translation, creativity, awareness Franco Nasi; 3. Anatomy of a day in the life of a translator Bernard Turle, translated by Michael Overstreet, 4. Sturm, drang and Slang: Writing translations of teenage fiction Clémentine Beauvais; 5. On X: Embodied retranslation and defacement in Brandon brown's Catullus 85 Adrienne K. H. Rose; 6. Translating the Greeks Katerina Stergiopoulou; 7. Beyond faithfulness: Retranslating classic texts Susan Bassnett; 8. Translation in and of Psychoanalysis: Kulturarbeit as transliteration Jean-Michel Rabaté; 9. Translation across brains and across time Christopher Honey and Janice Chen; 10. Covalent effect: Literary translation practice and the pedagogy of the multilingual workshop Aron Aji; 11. Notes on the translator's space / the Editor's place Dan Gunn; 12. The state of things Chad Post; 13. Translating into a minor language Rumena Bužarovska; 14. An other language: Translation and internationality Naoki Sakai; 15. Five entries on translation and loss Michael Cronin; 16. A kind of radical positivity': Reflections on the craft, contexts, and consequences of writing translations Kate Briggs, Jen Calleja, Sophie Collins, Katrina Dodson and Natasha Soobramanien; Bibliography; Index.