No Man's Land
Absinthe points us to no man’s land, an online journal dedicated to German translations. We’re a tiny bit late to the game, as this is their 2nd issue, but better late than never. According to the site, they are: “more than just an online literary magazine, no man’s land is an information resource and ...
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Ed Hirsch on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Ed Hirsch reviews a new translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in this week’s NYT Sunday Book Review: There have been dozens of translations of “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” over the years. J. R. R. Tolkien’s authoritative edition was a gift to readers, though his own translation now seems ...
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LitKarta
Unfortunately, we don’t read Russian, but this sounds like an incredible project: In August, LitKarta, the most important Russian literature related website, came into existence. LitKarta is the brainchild of Dmitry Kuzmin (one of the most productive curators of contemporary Russian literature). Kuzmin’s idea was ...
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Open Translation Tools 2007
Voices from Open Translation Tools 2007 in Zagreb, Croatia. Via
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Aspects of literary anti-Americanism in the interwar years
In Eurozine: This essay offers a modest contribution to such a literary history of anti-Americanism. The period discussed is the interwar years, which is indisputably one of the high-water marks in the history of European hatred of America, not only in terms of intensity, but also in terms of what might be called the ...
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Sign and Sight's Books this Season
This is one of my favorite things on the internet (seriously). Every season, signandsight.com puts out a list of the ‘best books’ that have come out in Germany recently. It’s a great resource for us. Even though the list is usually pretty small, there’s always one book that gets me excited. This ...
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Bernard Scudder
The Guardian mourns the death of Icelandic-English translator Bernard Scudder… Translators are the neglected stepchildren of literature, considered lucky if they get their names on a book’s title page or receive a small share of an award. This state of affairs was never more apparent than earlier this month, ...
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