James Yeh James Yeh is a writer, editor, and journalist. He teaches writing at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn.

Untranslatability | Fiction

James Yeh

1. It’s an old story. Two people together, simple, straightforward. She’s a translator; he is, I am sorry to say, a writer. Emily’s more successful, Charles more embittered. He hadn’t meant to end up like this — who does? But that’s life sometimes.  Let’s say they’re in their early thirties, have been together a while, weathered the storms to emerge more or less intact, stronger even, when Emily receives a...