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By Damion SearlsThe art of translation isn’t primarily about words. It’s about doing in your language, as a whole, what the original writer is doing in his or her language as a whole—and sometimes about reconsidering, or reimagining, what that language is.
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Redux: Two Hundred Perfect Words Every Day
By The Paris ReviewThis week, we’ve lowered the paywall on three pieces by ‘Women at Work Volume Two’ interviewees: Doris Lessing’s Art of Fiction interview, a short story by Jeanette Winterson, and a poem by May Sarton.
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Feminize Your Canon
By Emma GarmanOur monthly column Feminize Your Canon explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors.
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A Lost Exchange
By William S. Burroughs and Allen GinsbergThe two Beats met in 1992 to discuss bathtubs, balconies, and an infamous section of ‘Naked Lunch.’
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Eat Your Words
By Valerie StiversCooking up recipes drawn from the works of various writers.
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The Flamethrowers
By Rachel KushnerThe first image I pinned up to spark inspiration for what would eventually be my novel The Flamethrowers was of a woman with tape over her mouth. She floated above my desk with a grave, almost murderous look, war paint on her cheeks, blonde braids framing her face, the braids a frolicsome countertone to her intensity.
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Art & Photography
Swimming in Cambodia
By Jan BaraczOn a mountaintop in the year 802, the Khmer monarch Jayavarman II proclaimed himself a god and established the kingdom of Cambodia, initiating the dynasties that would—over the next four centuries—create the vast temple complexes of Angkor before abandoning them and vanishing.
