Lifestyle: In Practice

What does it mean to truly translate someone’s story? In this powerful reflection, Grace Sofia explores R.F. Kuang’s Babel and Valeria Luiselli’s Tell Me How It Ends, unpacking the violence, responsibility, and nuance behind language, storytelling, and interpretation. From magic to migration, this piece asks: how do we stay true to meaning when words are never neutral?

Dear Reader,  We are on the streets of Fifth Ave NYC at the start of this story, with ex-convict Stella Schmidt. She’s staring at the...