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“The hardest disappointment is in feeling that I’ve failed to do justice to my characters.” Intermezzo by Sally Rooney Reviewed by Jenny McPhee Reading this novel,” Sally Rooney wrote in her introduction to Natalia Ginzburg’s All Our Yesterdays, “we get to know its characters as if they were our own friends, or even ourselves. Many of them are …
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Halfway through Claire Messud’s sprawling new novel, the 31-year-old François reflects on his grand aspirations: “He wanted to experience everything, from the rocky iguana-covered outcrops of the Galápagos to the sumptuous palaces of Jaipur, from a gelatinous platter of steamed sea cucumber in a restaurant in Kuala Lumpur or a tear-inducing curry in Macao to …
I highly recommend this reading and discussion of Primo Levi's Quaestio De Centauris, which I translated a few years ago as part of the story collection Natural Histories included in The Complete Works of Primo Levi, edited by Ann Goldstein. When you translate something you spend so much time with the text, and on such an initmate …
A celebration of the Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories with editor Jhumpa Lahiri and translators Ann Goldstein, Jenny McPhee, and Michael F. Moore. This will be fun! And fascinating. The stories are each intriguing and surprising and Jhumpa is so passionate about all things Italian, but especially the language and literary tradition. Plus The …
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