Tag: translation

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You Shall Be What You Are

Rafael Chirbes

February 28, 2022

An excerpt from the diaries of Rafael Chirbes.

A Fierce and Violent Land

Sergio González Rodríguez

May 24, 2021

An excerpt from Sergio González Rodríguez’s “El hombre sin cabeza.”

Why Read the Classics?

Abdelfattah Kilito

April 05, 2021

A Moroccan Master reflects on the Arabic tradition.

Stepping Twice in the Same River

Juan José Saer

March 01, 2021

A translated excerpt from Juan José Saer's “El río sin orillas.”

Tove Ditlevsen’s Fragmentary Self

Bailey Trela

January 25, 2021

On the radical facticity of The Copenhagen Trilogy.

So the Story Goes

Yelena Furman

January 11, 2021

On the colloquial tales of Nikolai Leskov.

All That Man Is

Ezequiel Zaidenwerg

January 06, 2021

Maradona as memory, myth, and metaphor.

Ruins of a Memory Palace

Francesca Wade

November 30, 2020

On Judith Schalansky’s imaginative archives.

Memoirs from Beyond the Grave

Lorna Scott Fox

September 14, 2020

Two new translations of a Brazilian Classic.

Crimes of Passion

Becca Rothfeld

April 23, 2020

The violent imagination of Heinrich von Kleist.