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December 4, 2018 |
Ksenia Buksha / Courtesy of the author With apologies to Raymond Carver, what do we translate when we translate literature? What are we doing? And how do we do it? There ar...
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To Hisham Harbi
who said to me: “don’t stay in the shadows”
but I didn’t listen
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