You might not be a polyglot, but in the 21st century, the language barrier is barely a barrier at all. And now, assisting in our communication efforts is Skype, which announced Tuesday that it has ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Skype Translator is an ambitious project to help people of different languages share in real-time ...

The ease with which we can now translate web pages between different languages has surprising origins in the power struggles between Russia and the US. There are times when I feel as if I’m truly ...

A pre-eminent translator of contemporary Russian authors like Tatyana Tolstaya and Vladimir Sorokin, she won a prestigious prize for translation in 2016. By Daniel E. Slotnik Jamey Gambrell, an ...