Poetry Monday: today, “pure and simple provocation”
How do you pull the page over decades of intense activity? At 78 years old, the Moroccan poet and translator Abdellatif Laâbi publishes a book … Read more
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Should the medical translator study medicine? – Counter-Reply
What is a medical translator? Is it a doctor who also does translations? The answer is that not necessarily, but it must be someone who … Read more
Gluck’s translator: “People are not going to like buying their work on another label”
UIB professor Ruth Miguel translated ‘Averno’ by Louise Glück for the publishing house Pre-Textos The Mallorcan translator of the Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück, Ruth … Read more
“The Invisible Adventure”, wireless earbuds
The stage is a black circle with a tiny circumference, and the tiers encircle it like a snail shell. The three actors – but should … Read more
Soviet ghosts by Natascha Wodin
Yevgenya Yakovlevna Ivashchenko, the author’s mother, has always been on the wrong side, but the portrayal of her daughter is poignant. “If you had seen … Read more
Juliette Gréco and Japan, another idyll
In Japan, the “song”, it’s the French song from the 50s to the 80s. And in the “song” bin of second-hand vinyl record stores in … Read more
“In Mallard, one did not marry blacker than oneself”
Who decides if you are white or black, male or female? The heroines of Brit Bennett, 16-year-old twins who run away one morning in 1954, … Read more
Waiting for the thaw: civil rights, board games and unfinished manuscript
Until the cinema, show and exhibition halls are fully reopened, “Liberation” offers a cultural selection that can be consumed indefinitely. 1. With a committed strategy … Read more
Death of Freddy Michalski, great translator of the Anglo-Saxon black novel
Oh, shit, Freddy. It was Chantal Pelletier who told me the news. We were talking about the Covid, our conditioned freedoms, our leaden minds, the … Read more