Tag
criticism
Letters
The Letters Rilke Did Not Send
A new edition collects the drafts Rilke wrote and then withheld. The book complicates the figure of the great letter writer in interesting and uncomfortable ways.
Translation
When to Retranslate a Classic: The Case of the Sixth Madame Bovary
In October a new English Madame Bovary will appear from Penguin Classics, the sixth in a century. What does each generation think the last one missed?
Translation
The Translator's Preface as an Art Form
What can a translator say before her book begins? A close reading of five recent prefaces and the small rhetorical tradition they belong to.