WWB/RTW Book Club: The Assistant by Robert Walser
The newly redesigned Words Without Borders/Reading the World book clubs are now underway, and this month the book under discussion is Robert Walser’s The Assistant, which came out last year from New Directions and is translated by Susan Bernofsky. In contrast to the old version of the book clubs—which was ...
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More from Lawrence Venuti about Literature in Translation
A couple weeks ago we linked to Lawrence Venuti’s article on Words Without Borders about the business of publishing translations. It’s a very interesting piece that was written for a panel on the To Be Translated or Not To Be report and puts forth a somewhat provocative stance on what should be published in ...
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WWB/RTW Book Club: Zbigniew Herbert
The latest Words Without Borders/Reading the World book club is now officially underway. This month James Marcus and Cynthia Haven will be leading a discussion of Zbigniew Herbert’s Collected Poems. They have a lot of interesting things lined up for the next few weeks: The discussion will include contributions from ...
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More on the January WWB Book Club
At House of Mirth James Marcus offers a preview of the upcoming Words Without Borders discussion of Zbigniew Herbert’s The Collected Poems 1956-1998, which promises to be quite interesting. Next week, Cynthia Haven and I will be overseeing a Words Without Borders book club—an online conversation, more or ...
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WWB/RTW Book Club Update
Laila Lalami has two new posts up at Words Without Borders for the December discussion of Camara Laye’s The Radiance of the King. In the first, she discussing the literary influences in the book, in which she points to Kafka as a huge force on the novel. The most interesting part to me—but I’m a sucker for ...
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WWB/RTW Book Club Post
The latest post in this month’s Words Without Borders/Reading the World book club is now online. This month Laila Lalami is directing a discussion of Camara Laye’s The Radiance of the King , which sounds interesting: I want to start our discussion of The Radiance of the King by talking about the story ...
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WWB Book Club for December
Now that Michael Orthofer’s discussion of Mandarins has ended, it’s time for the next Words Without Borders/Reading the World book club to start. This month Laila Lalami will be discussing Camara Laye’s The Radiance of the King (NYRB). Her first post is now online and offers an overview of Laye’s ...
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