Translator Laura Marris, my guest on this episode, had long wanted to translate Albert Camus’s The Plague, his novel about a fictional pestilence that afflicted the Algerian coastal city of… Read More
This is the second half of the conversation I had last autumn with Polly Barton, a translator from Japanese and the author of a terrific memoir-cum-reflection on language and translation,… Read More
This episode is part one of a two-part conversation I had last autumn with Polly Barton, a translator from Japanese and the author of Fifty Sounds, which was one of… Read More
Exactly five hundred years ago, the Aztecs were locked in a monumental struggle for their civilization’s survival with the newly arrived Spanish conquistadors. Years later, Bernal Díaz, one of Hernando… Read More
A young man inherits a house on an island in the middle of the raging waters of a mighty river from his mysterious great-uncle Malicroix. But to satisfy the conditions… Read More
This week, another interview in the series of Conversations with Translators. My guest is Meredith McKinney, a translator from Japanese whose anthology of classical Japanese travel writing was published in… Read More
This week, another in our series of Conversations with Translators. And with my guest Tim Allen, we move for the first time (at last) beyond European languages. I’m always interested… Read More
This week, the Hedgehog and the Fox explore the benefits of speaking more than one language in the company of science writer Marek Kohn. Marek has recently published a book… Read More
My guest this week is Mark Polizzotti, author notably of a biography of surrealist André Breton; publisher at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and acclaimed translator from French of books… Read More
This week the Hedgehog and the Fox turn their curiosity on books themselves, indeed on a book entitled The Book by Amaranth Borsuk, which appears in the MIT Essential Knowledge… Read More
