Posts Tagged ‘translation’

How to Die

By Charlotte Salley | 02/02/2018 | 0

An excerpt from James Romm’s compilation of Seneca’s writings on death

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Living With Dante

By Louis Begley | 06/06/2016 | 0

A writer reflects on how the poet’s vision served as a vade mecum amid the horrors of the Holocaust

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Almost Home

By Stephanie Bastek | 03/23/2016 | 0

Read an excerpt from Githa Hariharan’s new collection of travel essays

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How to Read Dante in the 21st Century

By Joseph Luzzi | 03/22/2016 | 0

Breaking the code of “The Divine Comedy” with patient reverence

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Graveyard Clay and The Dirty Dust

By Stephanie Bastek | 03/16/2016 | 0

Compare two translations of “Cré na Cille,” Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Irish masterpiece

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Riddles for the Afterlife

By Sarah Ruden | 12/07/2015 | 0

Decoding the hieroglyphs that accompanied the dead pharaohs

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The Rap’s the Thing

By Chloe Taft | 12/07/2015 | 0

Translating Shakespeare into the language of hip hop

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Proust Imperfect

By Anka Muhlstein | 03/04/2015 | 0

The Englishman who interpreted France’s greatest novel

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Twain Abroad

By Will Yandik | 06/24/2013 | 0

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The New Old Way of Learning Languages

By Ernest Blum | 09/01/2008

Now all but vanished, a once-popular system of reading Greek and Latin classics could revitalize modern teaching methods

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