We love 'em too.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel writes a love letter to Edwin Frank and the New York Review of Books Classics series. We couldn’t agree more. via complete ...
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Memories of My Melancholy Sweethearts
Iran’s straight-laced censors are not known for their tolerance of sexually risque literature, so a book called A Memory of My Melancholy Whores was never likely to meet with their approval. But in their determination to get Gabriel García Márquez’s highly acclaimed work into the bookshops, local ...
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PEN Day of the Imprisoned Writer
Today is PEN’s Day of the Imprisoned Writer. On November 15 each year International PEN stages the Day of the Imprisoned Writer. PEN members do what they can to “raise public awareness of the plight of their colleagues worldwide,” writing protest appeals, staging events, and calling attention to ...
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Howard Goldblatt interview
Full-Tilt, “a journal of East Asian, poetry, translation and the arts”, which is completely new to me (and I guess everyone else, as this is their second issue), has an interview with Howard Goldblatt. The issue features several other interviews with translators as well. Howard Goldblatt has all but ...
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Like a little girl
This isn’t something I’ve given a lot of thought to before, but: Wherever you go, men and women tend to speak differently. But in Japan, those differences are more pronounced than in many places. Among the multilayered rules of grammar and usage governing spoken Japanese, there also exist underlying concepts ...
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201 Chekhov Stories
Eldritch Press, which is dedicated to putting public domain books online, has a fantastic Checkhov project: About this project: Constance Garnett translated and published 13 volumes of Chekhov stories in the years 1916-1922. Unfortunately, the order of the stories is almost random, and in the last volume Mrs. Garnett ...
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Longenbach on new Dante translation
The University of Rochester’s own James Longenbach has a review of a new translation of Dante’s Paradiso in this Sunday’s New York Times book review: When Dante wrote the poem we call “The Divine Comedy,” he called it simply the “Commedia”: a story, beginning in sorrow and ending in joy, of one ...
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