Elton Uliana appreciates the simultaneous broad scope and translatorly insight of Daniel Hahn’s recent book «If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation».
The Hour Between Languages
Bearing Down on the Numbers
Houssine Dehbi reviews Ros Schwartz’s translation of Khalid Lyahmlahy’s novel «Venice Requiem», focusing in particular on the literary and translational ethics of witnessing.
Rereading Klaus Merz
John Taylor offers a favorable appreciation of the recent retranslation, by Marc Vincenz, of Klaus Merz’s oneiric novella «Jakob schläft», previously translated by Tess Lewis.
Wonders in Aliceland
Pierre Senges leaps down the rabbit-hole in this review of Philippe Jaworski’s new French translations of Lewis Carroll for Gallimard’s prestigious Bibliothèque de la Pléiade.
Techno-Poetry
Victor Breidenbach gets to grips with Austrian poet Liesl Ujvary’s collection Good & Safe in a stimulating and acclaimed translation by Ann Cotten and Anna-Isabella Dinwoodie.
The Demistification of Elegy
Samuel Martin investigates the unmysterious case of Emmanuel Hocquard’s «Elegies», a touchstone of late 20th-century French poetry now translated into English by Cole Swensen.
