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  • Ljubljana

    Ljubljana is one of Europe's coolest capital cities, famed for its castle, beautiful bridges, vibran
  • Attention to Detail

    This is something I’ve been going on about in Our Man in Gdansk for some time now. This time, the book in question, though Polish, is available in an English translation by the highly regarded t
  • The Power of Suggestion

    Here’s the RTE (Irish TV and Radio) news website today. It was also on air in more or less the same form: Employers earlier warned that future investment by multinational companies could disappe
  • Technical Terms

    The belief that the translation should be free of the original, which some would have you believe is no more than a necessary evil, is an obsession in some areas of translation studies. Here’s T
  • Booker shortlist is announced

    Just for the record, this year’s Man Booker Shortlist has been announced: The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga The Secret Scripture – Sebastian Barry Sea of Poppies – Amitav Ghosh T
  • George Saunders and Style

    I’ve yet to read any novels by George Sanders, but after  reading the following passage in an interview between Ben Marcus and Saunders, taken from meaty Believer Book of Writers Talking To Wri
  • What to review?

    “This book makes no secret of the fact that it is aimed at specialists, containing as it does only four pages that are not structured as a list.” This is the encouraging opening of a revie
  • George and Martha by Karen Finley

    I feel more than a little sullied, having finished George and Martha by Karen Finley, and I’ve a feeling that this is one of the desired effects by the author as she pits George W. Bush and Mart
  • Translators

    Here’s Peter Bush, in his “The Writer of Translations,” on The Way Things Are for translators: they are dead; their names appear on “…the back flap [of books] as a bleak
  • Translator Training II

    Pym, this time, in an article called “On Cooperation,” telling us what translation students should be trained to do. Translate? Well, yes, that too but there are all sorts of other excitin