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Haruki Murakami on Translating The Great Gatsby - GalleyCat

The great Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami once translated The Great Gatsby for Japanese readers. In Columbia University Press’ In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It…
AUTHOR:Jason Boog
LENGTH: 1 minutes (293 words)

The Spy Novelist Who Knows Too Much

Gérard de Villiers, the author of the best-selling S.A.S. espionage series. Last June, a pulp-fiction thriller was published in Paris under the title “Le Chemin de Damas.” Its lurid green-and-black…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 30, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (749 words)

The Party Faithful

At a makeshift theatre in the port of Tel Aviv, hundreds of young immigrants from Melbourne, the Five Towns, and other points in the Anglophone diaspora gathered recently to hear from the newest…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 21, 2013
LENGTH: 35 minutes (8992 words)

Some Favorite Longreads from the Archive

This holiday season offers a chance for many of us to curl up by the fireplace (or noisy heating unit) and read some of the longer articles and Profiles we’ve missed during previous years.…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 29, 2012
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1478 words)

The Children Who Went Up In Smoke

Billboard about the Sodder children, who went missing on Christmas Eve, 1945. From www.appalachianhistory.net. For nearly four decades, anyone driving down Route 16 near Fayetteville, West Virginia,…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2933 words)

The Lying Disease by Cienna Madrid - Seattle Features

Most of the names in this story have been changed to preserve the anonymity of truly sick people. That said, to the extent that this story has played out on the internet, it is a matter of public…
LENGTH: 33 minutes (8339 words)

Among the Republicans

Every session of the Republican Convention opened with an invocation (after the presentation of the flag and the singing of the anthem), and closed with a benediction. A different man of God was…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 25, 1984
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1799 words)

VERSIONS OF STOPPARD

One of the greatest living playwrights is also a sought-after screenwriter and a conservative modernist. As his adaptations of "Anna Karenina" and "Parade's End" arrive, Victoria Glendinning goes for…
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3942 words)

Desperately Seeking Mitt

About eight months ago, I was tasked with an assignment: Starting in South Carolina, I would follow Governor Mitt "Tin Man" Romney on the long trail, from winter to summer of his life's most…
SOURCE:www.gq.com
LENGTH: 31 minutes (7785 words)
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