Sometimes when clichés become tired enough, it is time to flip them on their heads. I remember Tim Parks doing so in an article for The New York Review titled “Gained in Translation”—the mere reversal of a worn-out phrase nuancing my entire understanding of an under-appreciated practice. Like Parks, what is lost in translation does not interest me. Rather, I am interested in translators who “bring more to the work, and not less.” On Thursday, schools once again closed in New