A Dose of Forever Feelings

On Sex, Emotion, and Translating What You Feel Into Reality

As a young man, this sense of clunkiness spread to almost everything I did, including my youthful attempts at romantic affairs. I often found myself surrounded by images of love and romance that split emotions from sex without realizing how influential they were to a psyche still very much in formation. On the one ...
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A Dose of Forever Feelings

Socrates and His Teaching

Isaac Bashevis Singer translated by David Stromberg

Socrates is the best-known Greek philosopher among most people. The reason for his fame is not the philosopher himself but his mean wife, Xanthippe. People in no way interested in philosophy know that the great Socrates had a bitter spouse who caused him great suffering. Socrates is also famous for ...
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Socrates and His Teaching

How We Review Translations

In defense of an endless task

How much more are translators faced with the finality of their task! Having deferred authorship to their source, translators still carry the full burden and responsibility of carrying not only the text on the page, but the living choices that an author made using one word, phrase, or sentence instead ...
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How We Review Translations