In the sci-fi world crafted by Douglas Adams in “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,” you'd just slap a bright yellow Babel fish in your ear and simply be able to understand any mix of languages ...

Jon Fosse’s “Septology,” the seven-novel sequence about art and God that helped win its author last year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, stars two men and a dog. The men are both painters, and, ...

There are more efficient ways of keeping track of important foreign language vocabulary than a hand-held dictionary. If you’re learning a new language or making basic translations, try using the ...