“I am just one parent. What if more parents read translated books with their children?”
Literature
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Misdirectives
“A public high school teacher asks why the wrong things cause a fuss in schools.”
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The Terrifying Car Crash That Inspired a Masterpiece
“Fifty years ago, a Kansas family picked up a hitchhiker on their way to Iowa. What happened on that drive became part of literary history.”
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‘The Ways of Fiction Are Devious Indeed’
Sands Hall, a playwright and daughter of author Oakley Hall, digs into the work of Wallace Stegner — specifically his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Angle of Repose, which is based on the life of Mary Hallock Foote. “[W]e often fold in the real with the invented,” writes Hall, but when does inspiration become plagiarism? Yet in […]
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On Writing: An Abecedarian
“To be inside the cathedral of a language is to be inside a particular view of the world.”
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We Need to Translate More Armenian Literature
“We need them to assert our very existence.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
The Function and Language of Ancient Sexual Texts
A fascinating look at so-called obscenity, then and now.
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Novelist Charles Portis Was a True Original
Every Portis fan has a different favorite passage from his novels, but they agree on one thing: no one wrote like Portis.
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The Early Years of Elif Batuman’s Interest in Russian Authors
How a college student’s scholarly investigation into whether Tolstoy was murdered led to her first book, about the people obsessed with Russian literature.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
In Defense of Boris the Russki
Ayşegül Savaş calls into question a kind of racism in Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, and laments the liberal reluctance to rebuke discrimination outright, regardless of its targets.