A Test of Names: Franco Fortini and Primo Levi on the Language of Anti-Fascism
Published by permission, Counter Text Vol. 9, No. 2 Image: Funeral of Giuseppe Pinelli, the Italian...
Books
A Note on My Quandary About Political Poetry
With an Attempted Translation of a Poem by Franco Fortini (original post). Last October, Norman Finkelstein...
BOOKHOUSE Musings: Stories of and around books
At Bookhouse, we gather stories about books, unusual bookstores, printers, publishers, and book collectors. Recently, I...
Then As Now: Self-Interest and Profit Behind the Illusion of Taming Nazism
Chapoutot hits the mark when he describes, alongside a self-referential employer class, that of the jurists,...
Diversity and Rabbinization
Gavin McDowell, Ron Naiweld and Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra (eds), Diversity and Rabbinization, Jewish Texts and...
Blurring the Boundaries
The Renaissance and the Ottoman, edited by Anna Contadini and Claire Norton, Routledge, 2013 The Renaissance...
The Talking Dead
On ‘Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean’ by Karla Malette...
La Storia
Elsa Morante. Excerpts from La Storia, remembering October 16, 1943 Not even from her mother had...
Notes on Nurith Aviv’s Language Trilogy
The New York tribute to Nurith Aviv opens with Translating, the last film of a trilogy...
On Bruly Bouabré’s Alphabet (2005)
From One Language to the Other was broadcast by one of Arte’s evening shows dedicated to...