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Margaret Jull Costa, Jenny McPhee, and Suzanne Jill Levine discuss their translations of Carvalho, Ginzburg, and Ocampo with Kate Zambreno About this event Join the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith and the Center for the Art of Translation for a virtual event with Margaret Jull Costa, Jenny McPhee, and Suzanne Jill Levine to discuss their translations of Maria …
LAST SUMMER IN THE CITY by Gianfranco Calligarich translated by Howard Curtis Leo Gazzara, the narrator of Gianfranco Calligarich’s scintillating novel Last Summer in the City—an Italian cult classic masterfully translated for the first time into English by the pro Howard Curtis—might be described as a Latin Holden Caulfield all grown up. In the opening pages, …
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THE HERO’S WAY: WALKING WITH GARIBALDI FROM ROME TO RAVENNA by Tim Parks Walk into just about any city or town in Italy and you will inevitably bump into a statue or bust of a handsome man with flowing hair, deep-set eyes, and a thick beard, or you will see a plaque, a street, or a …
“A wonder of the world,” wrote the artist Giacomo Barri in 1671 of Paolo Veronese’s The Wedding Feast at Cana, “and whosoever comes to Venice and departs without a sight of the Picture may be said to have seen nothing.” The enormous wall painting (approximately 22 feet by 32 feet) is set not, as the Bible would …
Larkin is an amazing documentary filmmaker, her subject matter wide-ranging, deeply researched, and utterly compelling. The topics she takes on are always ambitious and range from flooding on the Mississippi to caregiving to nuclear power to anorexia and depression. Each film reveals Larkin's brilliant visual and narrative storytelling, which have earned her a Peabody and …
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(Ignore the dates! The campaign has been extended!) As many of you know by now, way back in 2003 my sister Joan had an idea for a public school based on the simple idea that if you can write well, you can do anything. So she pulled together a founding team and we somehow managed …
The brilliant editor of Reading in Translation, Stiliana Milkova, has put together a stunning, extraordinary issue of all things Ginzburg for us to read, contemplate, and linger over. She has also recently published the fascinating book Elena Ferrante as World Literature which I urge any Ferrante lover to check out. Fellow translator Ann Goldstein has …
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