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Assembly
Dear fellow carpenters and woodworkers,
I come with greetings of solidarity from the metaphysicians.
Among us the situation h…
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August 24, 2021
May 22, 2017Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase (1912), oil on canvas, 147 × 89.2 cm, Philadelphia Museum of Art / The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950Desnudo bajando una escale…
August 31, 2016Ignacio Padilla (date unknown) / Source: Ibero 90.9 Translator’s note: Mexican writer Ignacio Padilla (1968–2016) was killed in a car accident on August 20 while traveling throu…
August 30, 2016On the Mexico City subway (2016) / Still from a film by Carolina RuedaUniversidad–Indios Verdesby Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza¿Para qué forzar los sueños y las pesadillassi aquí todo convulsiona ha…
January 13, 2016Gisela HeffesAfter translating Ischia (2000), the novel by Argentine writer Gisela Heffes, I sat down with her to discuss how the novel—about a young female narrator on a journey…
October 21, 2015Josías López Gómez. Photo by Dr. Arturo Arias/ www.utexas.eduI’m in Guadalajara as one of three judges for the Premio de Literaturas Indígenas de las Américas (Prize for Indigenous Literatur…
September 29, 2015Left: Rocío Cerón, photo by Francisco Cañedo. Right: Anna Rosenwong, photo by Jesse Chan Norris.Anna Rosenwong’s translation of Rocío Cerón’s Diorama won the 20…
September 9, 2015Guillermo Arreola, Ni tú escaparás (2005), mixed media on canvas, 90 x 80cm. Courtesy of the artist.Durability of Materials …
September 11, 2014Rioseco and Wray in the Puerto Madero harbor neighborhood of Buenos Aires.When I sat down with Chilean poet Marcelo Rioseco recently, we discussed topics of translation, poetry,…
December 22, 2014in memoriam Kenny Kahn From the archive of Eugenia Huerta Bravo.A trio of important Mexican writers was born in 1914: Octavio Paz, José Revueltas, and Efraín Huerta. In the English-langu…
October 29, 2014For more on Santa Fe’s Biblioteca Amigos Library, read Figueroa's outpost featuring this bilingual literary hub in the November 2014 issue of World Literature Today.I have read Fahrenheit…
July 21, 2014Photo by Julie Skarwecki/FlickrWhat are masters for? Isn’t the relationship between master and disciple one of those relationships whose very existence depends on it never being…- August 14, 2012Translator David Bellos' newly authored book Is That a Fish in Your Ear? takes on translation from every angle, considering the methodology of translation as it applies to literatur…
July 31, 2012Photo by Stephen Pruitt/Flickr I recall, I translate my beloved Larkin: “La noche no ha dejado nada más que mostrar: / ni la vela ni el vino que dejamos a medias, / ni el placer de tocarse; / sol…
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