Some Thoughts on Translating Tolstoy and Others
Alongside Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear has translated numerous Russian novels, including The Master and Margarita and War and Peace. He writes here of the complexity ...
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Colouring the Rainbow
Maria Tatar, John L. Loeb Professor of Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University, falls under the spell of illustrations as she explores their unique ability ...
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The Franchise Affair: A Mystery Without a Corpse
A masterful and chilling mystery (named by the Crime Writers' Association in 1990 as one of the 'Top One Hundred Crime Novels of All Time') ...
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The Wonderful Wizardry of Words
Writing in the Winter 2010/Spring 2011 edition of the Folio Magazine, Maria Tatar uncovers the real magic in L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of ...
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How We See Frankenstein’s Creature
From its birth in the imagination of Mary Shelley, Frankenstein’s creature has taken on a life of its own as one of popular culture’s most ...