PNR 283, May-June 2025
The PN Review 281 editorial occasioned many responses. Its themes have informed PN Review from early on – how writers exist between as well as within languages and dialects. The activity of translation from one language to another, from a given to an acquired dialect, can appear analogous to the initial process of generating experience itself in and as language. Many of us are differently, sometimes conflictedly, alive in a variety of languages. Alive even in dead languages, one might say, proving those languages anything but mortal.