Thinking in Other Languages
As a translator of Spanish literature into English who early on felt he was a different person when speaking Spanish …
Monthly Archives: April 2014
Beneath Hill 60 — WW I: Courage and Massacre
I don’t know if the Aussies are the “best billiard players, best horsemen and best miners in the world” as …
The Trench — Being Young at the Battle of the Somme, July, 1916
The Trench, a 1991 British film by William Boyd, almost accomplishes what a serious anti-war film should do — make …
Redeployment – Stories From A War
Phil Klay’s slender volume of short fiction, coming from a 13 month tour in Iraq, delivers what we want from …
Doing Desert
There is in Tecopa Hot Springs, California, on the flat top of a small hill, a labyrinth of stones. Unlike …
Books in Brief
A couple of books sliding past my eyes this week, the kind I would wish to read but know I …
Gabo, Gone
Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian novelist whose “One Hundred Years of Solitude” established him as a giant of 20th-century literature, …
On Translation
As a part time practitioner of the great art of translation — mostly from Spanish to English– I am always …
Death Valley, Spring 2014, A Scent of Rain
The Mehlis Report – A Novel of Beirut
Since the world changed for Americans on Sept 11, 2001 I have made an effort to include fiction and history …
The Rich Will Keep Getting Richer, Unless…
Several commentators take a look at, and are impressed, with the new English translation of Thomas Picketty’s French published book, …