My interview with translator Charlotte Mandell is posted at The Millions (link). Charlotte Mandell translated Compass, by Mathias Enard. The novel was shortlisted for the…
1866, Richmond, Virginia: “The Hollywood [Cemetery] Association observed May 31st as Memorial Day. Business was suspended, the stores closed, and the whole city turned out…
I’m not at all a qualified translator, but trying to translate helps me understand a poem, helps me get into it more completely. I also like going…
Today, Boardman Robinson would be called a resistance artist. Born in Canada in 1876, Robinson moved to the U.S. in the 1890s, where he worked as…
Coal Black Horse, an American Civil War novel by Robert Olmstead, is poetry in prose, and a quest story both straightforward and profound. A mother —…
I’m way far from being an expert on battles, etc, nor am I a fan of pocket-Napoleon McClellan, yet the last sentence of the following…