I should read the Guerney and Fusso Dead Souls, too - I read the P&V and based on that and their Master and Margarita translation I think humor is their weak point. Speaking of which, if you come across a good translation of Andrei Bely's Petersburg, please let me know - the one I have (the John Cournos version) sometimes betrays that a joke has been translated, but never in a way that lets you know what was funny.

Janet Malcolm demolishes (somewhat unfairly) P&V: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/06/23/socks-translating-anna-karenina/ (Pevear responds)

Several years ago I developed a translation theory obsession, so a few recommendations from that binge -

• David Bellos's Is That a Fish in Your Ear? (the most casually readable one on this list)
• George Steiner's After Babel (controversial but worthwhile)
• Ezra Pound's The ABC of Reading (I know, I know, Ezra Pound, but he and John Dryden are the godfathers of translation theory for poetry and this predates his fascism)
• Barton Raffel's The Art of Translating Poetry
• Eliot Weinberger's Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei