A Journal of Translation
Dear readers, The idea for this theme emerged from a place of optimism— we had an eye towards potential shifts and changes in our sociality, and curiosity as to whether the lessons from the pandemic would endure after a vaccine …
Dear Readers, It’s been a long winter. The COVID-19 pandemic has a way of contracting and expanding time: the year moves steadfastly forward, yet each day is eerily similar to the one before. Space and distance have undergone a similar …
Dear lovely readers, I sincerely hope you are all well, and I am grateful for the investment of your time in reading our journal. What we present here to you in this issue of Alchemy may be considered a motley …
Dear Readers, Thank you for a wonderful year and a half! I don’t want to be overly sentimental, so I’ll say simply and briefly that working on Alchemy has been a genuinely life-changing (and, in important ways, thought-changing) experience. I’m …
Dear Readers, Let’s get into some definitions. First, translation – a speculative form.1 The translator-interpreter conveys meaning between one language and another––or between media, or between experiences, or between one genre of signifier and some other completely orthogonal genre of …
Dear Readers, There is a conventional way to write this letter: charming, urbane, and well-mannered. In many ways that letter was easier, dictated by a series of expectations. But that draft felt too polished. It kept sliding away from the …
Dear Reader, I am at a loss for where to begin this letter when our theme this issue is dedicated to such a powerful abstraction as love/(un)love. Luckily, we’ve been gifted with art and literature that not only speaks these …
Language is a strong weapon. Inherent in us since birth, and apparent to us in every aspect of life, metaphysical and otherwise, an aspect of pathetic fallacy. Language is at once a method of communication and an act of translation …
Everyday it is more evident that resisting is the only way to make this world livable, the only way to survive: resisting bigotry, fear, terror, paranoia, and hopelessness. But, “resistance” is not a word reserved only for radical activism and …
Movement defines us, but the action of clashing shapes us. This issue is dedicated to the savage beauty of encountering the different, the opposite, the paradoxical, and being able to inhabit it in active and dynamic ways. Writing, re-writing, erasing, …