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Thinking in Other Languages

4/26/2014

As a translator of Spanish literature into English who early on felt he was a different person when speaking Spanish …

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On Translation

4/16/2014

As a part time practitioner of the great art of translation — mostly from Spanish to English– I am always …

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Leaping Linguals! Everything is Understood!

10/28/2013

Just about my favorite place to be in the world –or in time– is at the annual conference of the …

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Afghan Landays — Women in the Shadows

10/24/2013

In my dream I was the president. When I awoke,  I was the beggar of the world.    Ashaba, an …

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The Forge: Spain in the Second Decade of the 20th

10/18/2013

The Forge by Arturo Barea has been on my Read-Next shelf for decades.  I spent a very fruitful year in …

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Behind the Red Mist — Fiction from Vietnam

4/8/2013

I first encountered Ho Anh Thai’s fiction at it’s fantastical best in the wonderful Whereabouts volume of Vietnam: A Traveller’s …

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To A Very Young Lady, Separated — A Poem, Jaime Gil de Biedma

3/25/2013

To A Very Young Lady, Separated In the year since you married, sweet beautiful breasts, you have found the fruits …

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Reading Vietnam

3/2/2013

Packed with my travel duffle for a 5 week trip to South East Asia is one of the indispensable series of books …

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Paradise of the Blind, a Novel from Vietnam, Duong Thu Huong

1/7/2013

Paradise of the Blind (1988) is Duong Thu Huong’s second serious novel, following a series of popular short stories, a novel …

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Autumn Landscape, Hồ Xuân Hương, early 19th Century, Vietnam

12/12/2012

Begining to think about a trip to South East Asia, including 12 days in Vietnam, I turned to a friend …

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The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh, Vietnam

12/11/2012

Bao Ninh’s convention shattering novel of war, The Sorrow of War, (1991/1994) opens at war’s end.  Kien is in the …

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Cambodia: Through a Thief’s Eyes

12/8/2012

The first I ever heard of Angkor Wat’s fabulous temple complex was reading Andre Malraux at a young age, probably …

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