What are those crazy kids from Vampire Weekend saying in their new single, “Cousins”? It’s a little disappointing, as the beleaguered translators of lyrics at We Listen For You reveal.
Cousin/Cousine?
More On Hitchens
In tribute to the passing of Christopher Hitchens, The Browser has collected some of his essays. His final memoir will be released in the states in April of next year.
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Reader’s Nostalgia
"Why do we spend so much time with stories whose endings we already know?" Derek Thompson writes about nostalgia and culture for The Atlantic, and his piece pairs well with Katy Waldman's Slate essay about "thinking that you’re not getting as much from reading as you used to."
A Transformative Translation
Zachary Lazar talks to Mary Jo Bang about her radical translation of Dante's Inferno: in an attempt to render the shock Dante caused by writing in conversational Italian rather than the conventional Latin, Bang translated Dante's text in modern-day English adorned with references to American pop culture. A sample of the text is available online.
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