Monday Mix 011617: Lingua franca
I’ve studied language for most of life, even before I declared at the age of 10 that I wanted to […]
Category: translation
Books Read in 2016
The very few books I was able to read in 2016. Maybe the first two don’t really count: the first […]
Books Read in 2016
The very few books I was able to read in 2016. Maybe the first two don’t really count: the first […]
Taking Out the Trash
Apparently there are writer-translators who either write or translate at one time. I don’t have much of a problem finding […]
Taking Out the Trash
Apparently there are writer-translators who either write or translate at one time. I don’t have much of a problem finding […]
Sacrament
“Światu grożą trzy plagi, trzy zarazy. Pierwsza–to plaga nacjonalizmu. Druga–to plaga rasizmu. Trzecia–to plaga religijnego fundamentalizmu. Te trzy plagi mają […]
The Mountain and the Wall (Book Review)
My literary education includes many of the great twentieth-century novelists of world literature, such as Salman Rushdie, Carlos Fuentes, Isabel […]
10 Reasons Not to Become a Translator
You don’t know any language well enough, not even your own. You hate reading. You like food, basic shelter, security, […]
New Publication
Black Sun Lit published my essay about and translation of Edmond Jabès on Paul Celan. They are an exquisite literary journal who […]
