The people who said the Democrats should use their power to change the number of justices on the Supreme Court while they had it were right and the people who prevented them from doing it were wrong.

In our latest review, David M. Smith takes on Douglas Robinson's experimental translation of Alexsis Kivi's 1870 novel The Brothers Seven. For archaic English in translation, explosion of conventions, and more: exchanges.uiowa.edu/reviews/the-br… Doug Robinson Zeta Books David M. Smith

Thanks Trafika Europe for this interview with me and Johan Harstad!

I don't understand the the rules for the NYT 100 books of the century. Many of the translated titles were originally published in the last century, which leads me to the conclusion that whoever made the list does not think a book is published until it is published in English?

Akira Kurosawa's advice to young writers.

Walt Whitman is to America what Shakespeare is to Britain, a wild spirit that moves everywhere, destroyer of old worlds and creator of new ones.

All great horror films take place in the woods. The best example being: Alien (1979) which takes place in the woods of space.

This essay discusses the state of the translation review today, critiques current practices that erase the translator's identity, and proposes strategies for making the translator's voice more visible when reviewing translated literature. readingintranslation.com/2024/09/02/the…

I note that Elon Musk's Twitter is putting Jill Stein's tweets in my feed even though I do not follow her. Musk, like me, believes that a vote for Stein is a vote for Trump. Don't be fooled by her big show of 🇵🇸 advocacy. She's a Russian-backed spoiler for Trump.

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Thanks Mapping the Zone podcast for this great review episode! When reviewing translated literature in the future, however, it's always appreciated and just good form to #namethetranslator, thank you!

Missing all my friends from ALTA already 😢

“Nodding perhaps to Nabokov’s ‘Pale Fire,’ Harstad tells the tale of the unfortunate Brandeggen through Aigner’s extraordinarily detailed endnotes.” Read “The corpse was dead & other stories,” by Andrew Stuttaford. newcriterion.com/article/the-co…

I've literally never heard this and I lived in Norway 6+ years, have taught Norwegian at the college level...no textbook I've ever used has ever said this either...

You can thank folks like me for ruining American literature. You're welcome

📣 The 2025 ALTA awards are officially open for submissions! bit.ly/4gNJJJN ALTA celebrates excellence in literary translation with 6 book awards and the Travel Fellowships, which bring emerging translators to the annual conference. Deadline to submit is March 17.