Eliza Moss on what novelists can learn from actors about self-expression. | Lit Hub Craft Michael Palma on why Dante’s Divine Comedy is more relevant than ever: “It is no wonder that the Internet abounds in reviews from readers who started the Divine Comedy expecting to be bored or confused but... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-12-07 11:30:09 UTC ]
Essay Photo by Miko Guziuk / Unsplash In his newest book, What Is American Literature? (Oxford University Press, 2022), award-winning cultural commentator, translator, and editor Ilan Stavans, the publisher of Restless Books and the Lewis-Sebring... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2022-02-02 19:59:22 UTC ]
With his wife, Jean Hollander, he produced an English translation of ‘The Divine Comedy’ that was hailed as a masterpiece. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-06-17 12:20:06 UTC ]
The story of Mary Acworth Evershed, who made surprising discoveries about “The Divine Comedy.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-05-24 13:08:14 UTC ]
Publisher whose list of writers included 10 Nobel prizewinnersPeter Owen’s survival as a publisher across 60 years was against all commercial odds. In 1993 he described himself as “one of the few remaining independent publishers specialising in translation”, and at his death aged 89 his mission... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writer and broadcaster Clive James is nominated in this year's Costa Book Awards for his translation of Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]