Community, Issue 1, 2026
Issue 1 will be published at the end of November on the Diamond Open Access Journals at the University of Cambridge (UK). Please find below the Table of Contents.
Introduction
Monica Boria and Ángeles Carreres
[Title TBC]
Joanna Trzeciak Huss and Chantal Wright
Translations
An extract from Ein Haufen Dollarscheine (A Heap of Dollar Bills) by Esther Dischereit
Jonny Ball, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge, UK
Meherunnesa’s India by Hamiruddin Middya
Soumyadeep Chakraborty, VIT-AP University, India
Four poems by Dunja Bahtijarević from the collection Stokuća
Una Dimitrijević, translator
Excerpts from Записки добровольца (Notes of a Volunteer) by Oleksandr Zakernychnyi
Heather Stacey, translator
Five poems from 母語辭典 (Mother Tongue Dictionaries) by Liu Waitong
Ng Sum Leung, translator
An extract from كان غداً (Once Upon a Time, Tomorrow) by Hilal Chouman
Caline Nasrallah, translator and PhD candidate at Concordia University, USA
An extract from Tvojim glasom: Ljubav u sjeni politike (In Your Voice: Love in the Shadow of Politics) by Dubravka Oraić Tolić
Lea Puljcan Juric, Fordham University, New York, USA
La meute (The Hunt) by Ella Balaert
Sarah Robinson, translator
In the margins of the family. Four poems by Ana Carolina Quiñonez Salpietro
Mariana Rodríguez-Barreno, PhD candidate, University of Oxford, UK
Four poems by Yiannis Efthymiadis
Vilelmini Sosoni, Ionian University, Greece
Vasilis Manousakis, University of Patra, Greece
A poem by Maria Beatrice Di Castri
Sharon Wood, University of Leicester, UK
Research articles
Afrofuturism in Janelle Monáe and Alaya Dawn Johnson’s The Memory Librarian: memory as translation and translation as memory
Tanya Bonnin, translator and PhD candidate, University of Warwick, UK
Crafting different communities of readers: Zhao Yuanren’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, cross-translation, and making (non)sense of the unification of the national language in 1920s China
Coraline Jortay, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
The Bulgakov Game: translation communities, competing norms, and the construction of an anglophone Bulgakov (1967–1986)
Hannah Klimas, University of Durham, UK
Translating survival: Kurdish poetry, community, and the ethics of the global polysystem
Harem Abdalla Majeed, University of Sulaimani, Iraq
Community building through translaboration: collaborative translation of Nianxi Chen’s Poems
Kuo Zhang, University of Siena, Italy
Melisa Cahnmann, University of Georgia, USA
Reviews
If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation by Daniel Hahn. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2026, 416 pp. ISBN 978-0593801666
Ibrahim Fawzy, Fayoum University, Egypt
Blood Book (Blutbuch) by Kim l’Horizon, translated from the German by Jamie Lee Searle. London: Sceptre, 2025, pp. 336, ISBN 978-1399731423
Isabel Parkinson, Somerville College, University of Oxford, UK
Speaking in Tongues by J. M. Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos. London: Harvill Secker, 2025, 144 pp. ISBN 978-1787305137
Luyao Yan, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Translation Multiples: From Global Culture to Postcommunist Democracy by Kasia Szymanska. Princeton University Press, 2025, 248pp. ISBN 9780691265490
Corine Tachtiris, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA
Take Six: Six Catalan Women Writers, edited and translated from the Catalan by Peter Bush. Sawtry: Dedalus, 2026, 288 pp. ISBN 978-1915568793; The Teacher and the Beast (La mestra i la Bèstia) by Imma Monsó, translated from the Catalan by Peter Bush. Cambridge: Gretton Books, 2026, 360 pp. ISBN 978-1739206734
Richard Mansell, University of Exeter, UK