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Practical Translation: ‘The Thousand and One Nights’ Today’s conversation is another session of practical translation: the reading and comparing of many renditions of one passage to try and understand how translators make their choices. But the text we’ll be examining, The Thousand and One Nights, presents an unusual challenge. Unlike Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, which we discussed in the first episode […] https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/08/28/on-translation-practical-translation-1001-nights-merve-emre/