Essays
Signed non-fiction on the book record, translation, and the languages nobody was obliged to write down. Published in external venues; the full text stays with the publisher.
Written for the blog of the European association of newspapers published in minority and regional languages. It follows one question — does this book exist in my language? — from a reader of Ladin, and finds that the answer was never written down: where no authority was ever obliged to record a language’s books, the resulting silence has been read, for a century, as if it described the culture rather than the paperwork.
The missing catalogue – Why finding books in translation is still so hard
Written for the London School of Economics’ Impact Blog. It states the problem from the reader’s side: even for the most translated books in the world, the translations sit in catalogues that do not speak to each other, and a translation that exists without a record of it is, for a reader, a translation that does not exist.