Category: Translation

23 April, 2012

David Bowe

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

Len Krisak

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

Paul Sweeten

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

Caroline Ardrey

A Single Immense Swoon

Karl Kirchwey's new translation of Poèmes saturniens playfully yet faithfully renders Paul Verlaine's adolescent verse.


Gavin Jacobson

Spirit of Resistance

Stéphane Hessel's Time for Outrage! urges that the state of the world requires a return to simple moral indignation.


1 June, 2011

Emily A. Winkler

Quest for the Common Man



15 June, 2006

Peter Snow

The Pursuit of the Hole

Michel Houellebecq's The Possibility of an Island


1 March, 2003

Leonard Epp

The Marquis de Custine and the Question of Russian History

Astolphe de Custine's Letters from Russia


C.E.J. Simons

Satellite of Love

Haruki Murakami's Sputnik Sweetheart


15 December, 2002

Anna Lynskey

Confused Extremes

Platform, Michel Houellebecq’s follow-up to Atomised