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The Editors of Psychoanalytic Perspectives introduce their special issue devoted to the overlapping themes of translation and psychoanalysis. In doing so, they take the opportunity to acclimate the reader to their journal’s growing focus on language, literature, reading and writing, noting its long history of gravitating in the direction of the literary arts and memoir. Papers in the special issue are bifurcated into two sections. The first includes papers from psychoanalysts with an interest in and experience with translation (Velleda Ceccoli, Smadar Steinbock, Amir Atsmon, Mark Solms, and Catherine MacGillivray), and a second section presents essays from people outside of academic psychoanalysis: an essayist and translator (Minna Zallman Proctor), a novelist and translator (Idra Novey), and a poet working with themes of what is translatable in families (Nancy Kuhl). A new section of the journal is announced, an alternative book review section entitled Extra-Analytic: Creative Readings, devoted to the experience of non-analytic texts, with an implicit emphasis on reading (rather than reviewing) as yet another act of translation.