This is one of those questions that becomes more complicated the more you think about it – not to mention the fact that the views of translators, book publishers, and original authors on the matter may vary. Tim Parks, both author and translator, gives the issue a serious look.
Tag: 03.28.17
One Of Calder’s Greatest Mobiles Goes Into Storage As Fight Over Ownership Drags On
Universe, which has been on view in the lobby of Chicago’s Sears Tower (now Willis Tower) since 1974, is being packed up as the building’s latest owners prepare for a major renovation of the building as two previous owners (including Sears, which commissioned Universe and claims title to it) continue a years-long struggle.
Making An Opera Libretto Out Of The My Lai Massacre
It’s not easy, obviously – especially when you know nothing about opera. Harriet Scott Chessman writes about how she met the challenge when composer Jonathan Berger invited her to write the text for his opera My Lai.
Jazz Saxophonist Arthur Blythe Dead At 76
Nate Chinen: “Blythe was a commanding figure whose music connected jazz’s root system with its freer outgrowths, seemingly without a second thought. It was implicit in his broad-shouldered tone – ’round as Benny Carter, ardent as John Coltrane,’ in the words of Gary Giddins – and through the vibrato that often amplified the sensation of fervency.”
William McPherson, 84 – Pulitzer-Winning Book Critic Who Chronicled His Own Descent Into Poverty
He freelanced, but bad investment decisions and health reversals shriveled his savings. To considerable attention, he wrote a self-lacerating essay in 2014 about his slide into what he called the “upper edge of poverty” — not quite destitution but where “a roof over your head and a wardrobe that doesn’t look as if it came from the Salvation Army is as good as it gets.”
When A TV Show Is A TV Show Is A Movie
The 10- or 13- or 73-hour-movie idea rises out of the same impulse as “novelistic” TV, or television that treats its episodes as “chapters,” or even from the urge to reframe an entire first season as a “pilot.” While the connotations of those terms may differ slightly, the underlying message is the same — one episode of TV is not enough.
DC’s Georgetown Looks To Its Historic Canal For A Signature Park
Georgetown Heritage, a nonprofit organization formed to rethink the one-mile, nine-acre portion of the canal in Georgetown, has hired the architect of Manhattan’s High Line in hopes of creating an equally buzzy, reimagined urban park along the now-staid industrial strip of land. It’s part of a broader plan to once again make the historic neighborhood a leading destination in the city amid competition from other booming neighborhoods.
David Arben, 89, Violinist Who Survived Seven Nazi Concentration Camps
In 1941 he was pulled out of a group of Jewish inmates who were digging their own mass grave by a guard who recognized him as a violinist and thus useful. Arben made his way to the U.S. after the war and ended up playing in the Philadelphia Orchestra for 34 years, retiring as associate concertmaster.
‘Prestige TV’: 13 Ways To (Let Everyone) Know Your Series Is *Art*
“1. ‘It’s like a novel.’ It’s not TV – it’s literature, but with title credits and a ten-episode season order.
2. ‘It’s like a movie.’ …“
Why Can’t People Let Go Of The Idea That High-Quality Television Has To Be Like *Cinema*?
“For some reason, [people seem to think] TV can’t stand on its own as a ‘prestige’ narrative. For TV, prestige means getting reframed as something else and basking in the reflected glow of another art form’s cultural currency.” Kathryn VanArendonk looks at why this idea seems to stick, and why it’s so frustrating.