{"id":86226,"date":"2015-06-01T13:32:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T17:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=86226"},"modified":"2015-06-01T14:05:53","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T18:05:53","slug":"relax-its-our-summer-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/01\/relax-its-our-summer-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Relax\u2014It\u2019s Our Summer Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/213.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-86227\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/213.jpg\" alt=\"213\" width=\"600\" height=\"906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/213.jpg 1838w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/213-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/213-678x1024.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/back-issues\/213\" target=\"_blank\">new Summer issue<\/a> features work in and about translation. There\u2019s a story from Andr\u00e9s Neuman and a sneak peek at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/6377\/from-submission-michel-houellebecq\" target=\"_blank\">Michel Houellebecq\u2019s controversial novel,\u00a0<em>Submission<\/em><\/a>, plus poems by Coral Bracho, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/6389\/two-poems-xi-chuan\" target=\"_blank\">Xi Chuan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/6390\/two-poems-radmila-lazic\" target=\"_blank\">Radmila Lazi\u0107<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/6391\/the-curse-of-small-creatures-iman-mersal\" target=\"_blank\">Iman Mersal<\/a>. At its center are two interviews in our Art of Translation series\u2014first with Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, who have been married for thirty-three years and whose thirty-odd translations include <em>The Brothers Karamazov<\/em>, <em>Crime and Punishment<\/em>, <em>War and Peace<\/em>, <em>Anna Karenina<\/em>, and Chekhov\u2019s <em>Selected Stories<\/em>. \u201cVery naive readers think you take the Russian and you put it in English, and then you\u2019re done,\u201d Pevear says. <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Why would there be two translations? People still ask us that\u2014hasn\u2019t it been translated already? Some people feel very uneasy once they discover that there might be two or three different ways of translating something. How do I know which one to read? And that part is very emotional.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And with Peter Cole, who translates poetry from Hebrew and Arabic:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If you want to produce a vital translation, at some point in the translation process you have to forget the original. Some would say you have to kill it. Ideally by eating it alive.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Last month, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/great-expectations\/2015\/04\/24\/ad1e24a2-e916-11e4-9767-6276fc9b0ada_story.html\"><em>Washington Post<\/em><\/a> called for the return of the serialized novel, suggesting <em>The Paris Review<\/em> ought to lead the charge. Our Summer issue kicks off our third serial in five years: Chris Bachelder\u2019s novel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/6383\/the-throwback-special-part-1-chris-bachelder\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Throwback Special<\/em><\/a>, about an ordinary group of men who gather together once a year to reenact what ESPN has called \u201cthe most shocking play in NFL history.\u201d Each of the four installments will feature illustrations by Jason Novak; you can see one below.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also new fiction from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/6380\/yancey-ann-beattie\" target=\"_blank\">Ann Beattie<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/6378\/voltaire-night-deb-olin-unferth\" target=\"_blank\">Deb Olin Unferth<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/6379\/youth-david-szalay\" target=\"_blank\">David Szalay<\/a>, Padgett Powell, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/6384\/bf-and-me-lucia-berlin\" target=\"_blank\">Lucia Berlin<\/a>; poems by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/6388\/three-poems-d-nurkse\" target=\"_blank\">D. Nurkse<\/a>, Peter Cole, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/6393\/attributed-to-the-harrow-painter-nick-twemlow\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Twemlow<\/a>, Ishion Hutchinson, and John Koethe; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/art-photography\/6396\/heavenly-seas-aidan-koch\" target=\"_blank\">a portfolio by Aidan Koch<\/a>, whose work\u2014polka dots included\u2014also graces our cover.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/subscribe\">Subscribe today<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_86228\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/jasonnovakbachelder.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86228\" class=\"wp-image-86228\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/jasonnovakbachelder.jpg\" alt=\"jasonnovakbachelder\" width=\"600\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/jasonnovakbachelder.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/jasonnovakbachelder-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-86228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cMy dog came into the bathroom \u2026 and I honestly think he was judging me. I was down at his level, sitting on the toilet, and I just think he totally lost respect for me. I could see it.\u201d Illustration by Jason Novak.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our new Summer issue features work in and about translation. There\u2019s a story from Andr\u00e9s Neuman and a sneak peek at Michel Houellebecq\u2019s controversial novel,\u00a0Submission, plus poems by Coral Bracho, Xi Chuan, Radmila Lazi\u0107, and Iman Mersal. At its center are two interviews in our Art of Translation series\u2014first with Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2559],"tags":[18323,10009,1392,35,18315,18309,18319,18316,3554,6702,71,212,18311,1132,18321,18161,18308,18322,18313,18318,822,18320,747,18317,1988,165,18310,18312,17520,18314,530,14674,5856],"class_list":["post-86226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulletin","tag-aidan-koch","tag-andres-neuman","tag-ann-beattie","tag-art","tag-chris-bachelder","tag-coral-bracho","tag-d-nurske","tag-david-szalay","tag-deb-olin-unferth","tag-espn","tag-fiction","tag-football","tag-iman-mersel","tag-interviews","tag-ishion-hutchinson","tag-issue-213","tag-issue-announcement","tag-john-koethe","tag-larissa-volokhonsky","tag-lucia-berlin","tag-michel-houellebecq","tag-nick-twemlow","tag-novels","tag-padgett-powell","tag-peter-cole","tag-poetry","tag-radmila-lazic","tag-richard-pevear","tag-serialization","tag-the-art-of-translation","tag-translation","tag-translators","tag-xi-chuan"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Introducing Our New Summer Issue<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Michel Houellebecq, Ann Beattie, Andr\u00e9s Neuman, and more!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/01\/relax-its-our-summer-issue\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Relax\u2014It\u2019s Our Summer Issue by The Paris Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"June 1, 2015 \u2013 Our new Summer issue features work in and about translation. 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