September 2003 Issue
Madeleine Minson
A Tale From Tallinn
Treading Air
By Jaan Kross, Eric Dickens (trans)
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October 2003 Issue
Sarah A Smith
Escape from New Caledonia
The Child of an Ancient People
By Anouar Benmalek (Trans Andrew Riemer)
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October 2003 Issue
Aidan Hartley
Sex and Death in Africa
A Sunday At The Pool In Kigali
By Gil Courtemanche (trans Patricia Claxton)
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November 2003 Issue
Francis King
Beyond The Nile
Season of Migration to the North
By Tayeb Salih (Trans Denys Johnson-Davies)
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December 2003 Issue
Teresa Waugh
The Pubescent Poet
Rimbaud Complete
By Arthur Rimbaud, Wyatt (ed, trans, intrd)
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December 2003 Issue
Allan Massie
The Terrors of Translation
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March 2004 Issue
John Murray
Balkan Tragedy
Balkan Tragedy
By David Albahari (Trans Ellen Elias Bursac)
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June 2004 Issue
Donald Rayfield
Donald Rayfield Welcomes New Translations of two Russian Classics
Lady Macbeth of Mitsenk
By Nikolai Leskov
Dubrovsky
By Alexander Pushkin
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July 2004 Issue
Carole Angier
The Soloist’s Story
Passport To Yesterday: A Novel In Eleven Stories
By Yuri Druzhnikov (Trans.Thomas Moore)
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July 2004 Issue
Miranda France
Holy Symmetry
Snow
By Orhan Pamuk (Trans. Maureen Freely)
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December 2014 Issue
Catherine Brown
The Russian Saki
Subtly Worded
By Teffi (Translated by Anne Marie Jackson, Robert & Elizabeth Chandler, Clare Kitson, Irina Steinberg & Natalia Wase)
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December 2014 Issue
Lucian Robinson
Bar Room Philosophy
The Sermon on the Fall of Rome
By Jérôme Ferrari (Translated by Geoffrey Strachan)
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December 2014 Issue
Arabella Friesen
To Live & Die in Naples
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
By Elena Ferrante (Translated by Ann Goldstein)
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December 2014 Issue
Matthew Adams
Brothers Grim
F
By Daniel Kehlmann (Translated by Carol Brown Janeway)
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December 2014 Issue
David Collard
Stores of Memory
Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas
By Patrick Modiano (Translated by Mark Polizzotti)
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August 2014 Issue
Michael Tanner
Dasein Explained
Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon
By Barbara Cassin (ed) (Translated by Steven Rendall, Christian Hubert, Jeffrey Mehlman, Nathanael Stein & Michael Syrotinski) (Translation edited by Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra & Michael Wood)
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September 2011 Issue
Frederic Raphael
Speaking In Tongues
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything
By David Bellos
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July 2009 Issue
Charles Thomas
Cairo Tales
Khan al-Khalili
By Naguib Mahfouz (Translated by Roger Allen)
The Mirage
By Naguib Mahfouz (Translated by Nancy Roberts)
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August 2008 Issue
Rachel Hore
Shadows on the Water
A Blessed Child
By Linn Ullmann (Translated by Sarah Death)
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March 2008 Issue
Francis King
Kully’s Story
Child of All Nations
By Irmgard Keun (Translated by Michael Hofmann)
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It wasn’t until 1825 that Pepys’s diary became available for the first time. How it was eventually decrypted and published is a story of subterfuge and duplicity.
Kate Loveman tells the tale.
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Kate Loveman: Publishing Pepys
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Arthur Christopher Benson was a pillar of the Edwardian establishment. He was supremely well connected. As his newly published diaries reveal, he was also riotously indiscreet.
Piers Brendon compares Benson’s journals to others from the 20th century.
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Of the siblings Gwen and Augustus John, it is Augustus who has commanded most attention from collectors and connoisseurs.
Was he really the finer artist, asks Tanya Harrod, or is it time Gwen emerged from her brother’s shadow?
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