29 April, 2013
The Mind at Work
Javier Marías's meandering yet vigilant prose rewards concentration. Just don't expect certainty.
Category: Translation
17 February, 2013
Four Translations of Osip Mandelstam
Alistair Noon translates four poems by the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam.
4 November, 2012
A Geometry of His Own
In The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles, Sarah Hopkins finds characters shadowed by the certainty of their own destruction.
22 October, 2012
The Supreme Leader
Katie Low assesses Aloys Winterling's biography of Caligula, a young man exulting in the possession of enormous power.
7 October, 2012
His Days are Numbered
José María Merino experiments with form and narrative persona in this constellation of microfictions, El libro de las horas contadas.
18 June, 2012
Everything in Excess
Anne Carson's Antigonick is a convincing translation of Sophocles that puts emphasis on chaos and irony.
23 April, 2012
The Thick of It
Mary Jo Bang's new translation of Dante's Inferno is a densely allusive modernisation that loses its way in formal complexity.
26 March, 2012
Four Translations of Rilke
Len Krisak is an award winning translator who has, most recently, translated Virgil's Eclogues and Horace's Odes.
31 October, 2011
An Interview with George Szirtes
Poet and translator George Szirtes talks to the Oxonian Review about language, photographs and winning the T.S. Eliot prize.
13 June, 2011
A Single Immense Swoon
Karl Kirchwey's new translation of Poèmes saturniens playfully yet faithfully renders Paul Verlaine's adolescent verse.
