Linguistics
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January 13, 2017 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews Electric Literature rounds up a farewell to “Reader-in-Chief” President Obama, recalling each and every one of President Obama’s book recommendations, reading lists, b... -
October 31, 2014 |
Mia Couto receiving the Neustadt feather. Photo by Vanesssa Rudloff. Thank you to all of our readers who supported the 2014 Neustadt Festival last week! It was a wonderful celebration of Mia Couto an... -
October 28, 2014 |
Photo by Marsha Brockman/Flickr To say literary translation is to commit a pleonasm. All translation is intrinsically literary, in the same way every text is, at least for one of the three legs th... -
May 14, 2014 |On “Translating the Untranslatable”: Conversations with French Poets Anne Portugal and Pierre Alferi
Left: Anne Portugal. Right: Pierre Alferi Within the rather polemically suggestive title “Translating the Untranslatable” hides a wide array of opinion and diverging thoughts. In the world of poetry,... -
April 15, 2014 |
A Conversation with Don Bartlett A bookshop in Stavanger, Norway. Photo by Marie Guillaumet/Flickr In Norway, many bookstores carry a wide variety of translated fiction, noticea...
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Scene from Performance Survivor’s Syndrome, based on a work by Andriy Bondarenko, Harmyder Theater (Lutsk, Ukraine), directed by Ruslana...
