Thanking the Translators
We owe thanks to the literary translators. Through meticulous and exacting work, carried out in obscurity and often in utter anonymity, these magicians of language open the door to whole new book stacks of wonder.
We owe thanks to the literary translators. Through meticulous and exacting work, carried out in obscurity and often in utter anonymity, these magicians of language open the door to whole new book stacks of wonder.
The Huffington Post | Craig Kanalley | Posted 05.25.2011
You're in a foreign country. There's text in front of you - on a sign, in a menu, wherever - that you don't quite understand. What do you do? If yo...
Gail Vida Hamburg | Posted 05.25.2011
It is not unusual for US interpreters in Afghanistan to be ignorant of the languages they claimed to be fluent in. Faking understanding of a foreign language is a common vanity.
Zachary J. Iscol | Posted 05.25.2011
Last night, in a sobering prime time address from the Oval Office, President Obama called for us to turn the page on Iraq. But for thousands of Iraqi...
Zack Isaacs | Posted 05.25.2011
There's a new job skill that the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is requiring of a few agents: how to speak Ebonics. And that's probably because it is not usually taught in schools.
The Guardian | Tim Parks | Posted 05.25.2011
Who wrote the Milan Kundera you love? Answer: Michael Henry Heim. And what about the Orhan Pamuk you think is so smart? Maureen Freely. Or the imagina...
David Isenberg | Posted 05.25.2011
Interpreters have some of the most high risk jobs in war zones.
AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is back to square one – again – in finding a transportation security chief to shore up the natio...
AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — If you're a fan of Gabriel Garcia Marquez or have purchased the latest edition of "Don Quixote," you might know the name Edith Grossm...
AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 05.25.2011
NAWA, Afghanistan — Josh Habib lay in a dirt field, gasping for air. Two days of hiking with Marines through southern Afghanistan's 115-degree h...
Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 05.25.2011
Foreigners on student or work visas are probably at least as good a bet as the serious felons the armed forces have been reduced to chasing after. Provided they're straight, of course.
Rep. Rush Holt | Posted 05.25.2011
It is no exaggeration to say that bolstering foreign language education for ensuing generations is vital to our nation's economic and national security.
Nina Sankovitch | Posted 05.26.2012