A Graphic Novel for the Armchair Traveler
A review of a graphic novel/memoir about a South Korean university student's introduction to resistance against her country's dictatorship in 1983.
A review of a graphic novel/memoir about a South Korean university student's introduction to resistance against her country's dictatorship in 1983.
Some thoughts on last week's conversation between David Bellos and Karen Emmerich on how the field of translation has changed since 1970, and a preview.
The "Translating the Future" conference to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first PEN translation conference is going online with weekly panels.
Guest post from Richard Lachmann on the Covid-19 crisis and the U.S.'s poor performance relative to other countries.
Thoughts on whether to keep the Covid-19 lockdown or open the country again, in the country we have rather than the one we wished we had.
Interview with the author of new YA historical novel Open Fire, set in Russia in 1917, at a time of war and revolution.
How our actions as a collectivity raise or lower our chances of surviving the Covid-19 pandemic, thus making all of us a collective protagonist.
In fall 2005 my husband took our oldest child to Atlanta for his freshman year at Emory University. Derrick fell in love with Emory years before when he accompanied Richard…
Travel via books can be to imagined worlds, like our own but with magic, as I found out reading Christina Soontornvat's A Wish in the Dark.
Because of my broken ankle, I missed this year's New York Times Travel Show and that opportunity to plan my summer trip, which will -- ankle permitting -- take us…