A few weeks ago, I put up an interview with Anne O’Neill-Henry about her book Mastering the Marketplace, which examines the dawn of the era of the bestseller in nineteenth-century… Read More
This programme is one from the archive, a conversation I had back in 2010 with doyenne of Spanish translators Edith Grossman in which she makes the case for taking translation… Read More
What can poetry learn from music? Not about surface lyricism, but at the deeper levels of form, of their relationship to time – Eliot writes in ‘Burnt Norton’: ‘Words move,… Read More
In this interview, part of the Conversations with Translators series, I talk to David Bellos of Princeton University about his book on translation, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?,… Read More
Tony Crowley’s new Liverpool English Dictionary is a treasure trove for anyone interested in the rich variety of spoken and written language found in this country. I suspect that even… Read More
