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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei Literature by Eliot Weinberger. The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty—from a transliteration to Kenneth Rexroth’s loose interpretation.
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New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914–1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies.
Clarice Lispector was born in 1920 to a Jewish family in western Ukraine. As a result of the anti-Semitic violence they endured, the family fled to Brazil in 1922, and Clarice Lispector grew up in Recife. Following the death of her mother when Clarice was nine, she moved to Rio de Janeiro with her father and two sisters, and she went on to ...
In Scattered All Over the Earth, the mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian new novel by Yoko Tawada, the world’s climate disaster and its attendant refugee crises is viewed through the loving twin lenses of friendship and linguistic ingenuity. Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now ...
The lament of the sky, inseparable from erudition and wit, connect her work to the world in startling ways. What emerges from Wrong Norma is the mesmerizing working of a mind in process, of Anne Carson, a kosmos, to borrow the infinite self-stylings of Walt Whitman. Ultimately, it is the singular sense of originality that makes reading Anne ...
Published Feb, 26 2024. New Directions, Fitzcarraldo Editions, and Giramondo are pleased to announce that The Novel Prize, a biennial award for a book-length work of literary fiction written in English by published and unpublished writers around the world, will open for submissions from April 1, 2024 to June 1, 2024.
