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Astoria Characters: The Woman Who Isn't Lost in Translation

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 03.25.2012

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Nancy Ruhling

Josephine Traversa spent a lot of time shifting English to Italian for her family members, which is probably why she ended up making her career in translation and interpretation.

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Gaddafi's Loyal-ish Translator

MP Nunan | Posted 05.25.2011

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MP Nunan

I've been a fan of Gaddafi's translator since September 2009 -- when he screamed, "I can't take it any more" and collapsed while translating Gaddafi's speech before the UN General Assembly.

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'I Am A Woman!'

Cathy Porter | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cathy Porter

It may be that we would have had none of his great novels without her, but it's her candid account of their 48-year marriage that makes her diaries so compelling.

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New York Review: The Collected Stories Of Lydia Davis

Posted 05.25.2011

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The New York Review Of Books Dan Chiasson The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 733 pp., $30.00 1. Lydia ...

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