Category: Thursday Fiction Corner

August 24, 2017

Thursday Fiction Corner: City Folk and Country Folk as a Feminist Novel

This week Elaine Wilson, a PhD candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Columbia University, introduces Sofia Khvoshchinskaya’s City Folk and Country Folk as a 19th century feminist novel.

May 4, 2017

Thoughts on Rapture by Iliazd (Ilia Zdanevich)

Read an article by Russian Library intern Veniamin Gushchin discussing RAPTURE, by Iliazd, translated by Thomas J. Kitson.

January 19, 2017

Thursday Fiction Corner: Kiku’s Prayer by Endō Shūsaku, translated by Van C. Gessel

Musings on Kiku’s Prayer by Endō Shūsaku, translated by Van C. Gessel.

December 8, 2016

Thursday Fiction Corner: Between Dog and Wolf in Translation

Sasha Sokolov’s BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF has appeared in English for the very first time, and so the idea of the “untranslatable” returns to the realm of translation mythology. Or does it?

June 9, 2016

Thursday Fiction Corner: Many Annas Karenina

A brief comment on Janet Malcolm’s recent piece in the New York Review of Books on translations of Anna Karenina.

May 5, 2016

Thursday Poetry Corner: C. D. Wright

Lizzie Tribone discusses the powerful poetry of C. D. Wright, as seen in Wright’s chapbook FLAME, part of the Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2011 collection WORDS AND THE WORLD.

April 21, 2016

Thursday Fiction Corner: Chu T’ien-wen’s Notes of a Desolate Man

For this week’s Thursday Fiction Corner, Russian Library editor Christine Dunbar discusses NOTES OF A DESOLATE MAN, by Chu T’ien-wen, translated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-Chun Lin.

March 24, 2016

Thursday Fiction Corner: The Blue Wolf by Inoue Yasushi, translated by Joshua Fogel

For this week’s Thursday Fiction Corner, Russian Library editor Christine Dunbar muses on the (unfair) expectations readers put on translations after having read THE BLUE WOLF, by Inoue Yasushi, translated by Joshua Fogel.

March 3, 2016

Thursday Fiction Corner: Trees Without Wind by Li Rui, translated by John Balcom

For this week’s Thursday Fiction Corner, Russian Library editor Christine Dunbar muses on sound, names, and the ethical stakes of translation after having read TREES WITHOUT WIND, by Li Rui, translated by John Balcom.

February 18, 2016

Thursday Fiction Corner: Ch’oe Yun’s There a Petal Silently Falls

Russian Library editor Christine Dunbar asks how much, if any, contextualizing information should be provided to the reader of a translation.

February 11, 2016

Thursday Fiction Corner: Li Ang and her “Lost Garden”

Watch an panel featuring Li Ang, author of THE LOST GARDEN, as well as her translators, Sylvia Li-chun Lin and Howard Goldblatt, and editor, Jennifer Crewe.

January 28, 2016

Thursday Fiction Corner: The Closing of the Russian Mind?

Russian Library editor Christine Dunbar reacts to “The Closing of the Russian Mind? Freedom of Expression in Putin’s Russia.”

Posts navigation

«

1

2

3

4

5

»

Explore Posts
November 2024

S M T W T F S

1 2

3 4 5 6 7 8 9

10 11 12 13 14 15 16

17 18 19 20 21 22 23

24 25 26 27 28 29 30

« Oct
Archives
Archives
Find Your Topic
Find Your Topic

Follow Us

CUP 125

Columbia University Press Blog Privacy Policy and Cookie Notice

Columbia University Press Website

Back To Top

Search

CUP Blog Cookie Policy:

This website uses cookies as well as similar tools and technologies to understand visitors’ experiences. By continuing to use this website, you consent to Columbia University Press’ usage of cookies and similar technologies, in accordance with the Columbia University Press Blog Cookie Notice.