Introduction Room for Language: Moving into Translation Regina Galasso Part One: Language on Fire We Are the Clarion: A Manifesto on Immigration On Packing Up My Library Retelling Popol Vuh - in Chinese "English as She Spoke It": The Fallacy of American Studies (with Steven G. Kellman) Olga Takarczuk's Messianic Critique Does Literature Teach Us How to Die? (with Priyanka Champaneri) The People's Tongue: Language as Character Claudio Lomnitz's Vertigo Rethinking the Classics (with Jenna Tang) Pierre Menard: Retranslation and Approximation (with Youssef Boucetta) Fernando Pessoa's Selves On Borges's Blindness (with Max Ubelaker Andrade) How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish (with Josh Lambert) The Anxiety of Translation (with Robert Croll) We Are All Drafts: The Erotics of Translation (with Peter Cole) Part Two: Dictionaries as Confidants Notes on Latino Philology The Miasma of Order; or, Why Dictionaries Ought to Be Seen as Literature Is American Spanish Healthy? On Decidophobia (with Haoran Tong) "Clean, Fix, and Grant Splendor": The Making of Diccionario de autoridades Pablo Neruda's "Ode to the Dictionary" Letter to a Young Translator How Dictionaries Define Us (with Margaret Boyle) Part Three: Translation as Home Sor Juana in Nahuatl On Memes as Semiotic Hand-Grenades (with Mª Carmen África Vidal Claramonte) Peter Brook's Space On Translating the Disappearance into Yiddish (with Beruriah Wiegand) Is I Me, or Who Is I? Conversation with Jim Petrarch's Sonnet #132 A Lover Alone in Prison (with Sara Khalili) Roberto Bolaño's Tantrums Jevel Katz in Yingleñol Matching Socks in the Dark; or, How to Translate from Languages You Don't Know Self-Translation como survival mecanismo Simply Gimpl Homestead: "La casa pairal" from the Manuscript of Reus (with Regina Galasso) Translation as Home (with Regina Galasso) Immigrants in Quarantine (with Jhumpa Lahiri and Eduardo Halfon) Coda: The Hermeneutics of Translation Reading the Talmud in Mexico: A Confession Contributors Index.