I think anyone who is a lover of close reading any kind of text would find translation the greatest method for close reading and the pleasures you can get from it.
Read an excerpt from the novel Traveling in the Direction of the Shadow by Iana Boukova, translated from the Bulgarian by Ekaterina Petrova. This excerpt…
Brian and I sat down in an office room at Washington University in St. Louis to discuss his career, his influences, the power (and limits) of fiction, and his upcoming projects.