Book review
Lily Robert-Foley. Experimental Translation: The Work of Translation in the Age of Algorithmic Production
London: Goldsmiths Press, 2023. 256 pp.

Reviewed by Douglas Robinson
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Publication history

Date received: 9 August 2024

Date accepted: 27 March 2025

Published online: 22 April 2025

Table of contents

In the summer of 2022, Lily Robert-Foley, whom I had never met, was in the final stage of revising her book Experimental Translation when she heard that I had a forthcoming book titled The Experimental Translator. She panicked, she reported to me later: a book with almost the same title as hers, already going into production. Had I already said everything she wanted to say? Was all her hard work wasted?

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