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Young and Old: The Odd Sides of the Sandwich Generation
Scholars have a name for the twentieth-first century adults that get caught up in the care of their elderly parents and younger kids. They call it the “Sandwich Generation.” Claude Berri’s film The Two...
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Translating Dickinson
By William Eaton A discussion of four Emily Dickinson poems in the context of Françoise Delphy’s French translations appearing in Poésies complètes : Edition bilingue français-anglais by Emily...
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We’re not here for you to upbraid
A very loose translation of a once better known Boris Vian lyric Note: There is a print link embedded within this post, please visit this post to print it. Note: There is an email link embedded within...
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Learning to read again (Mrs Dalloway)
Evelyn was a good deal out of sorts, said Hugh, intimating by a kind of pout or swell of his very well-covered, manly, extremely handsome, perfectly upholstered body (he was almost too well dressed...
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The Dreyfus Affair in a great political thriller
Note: There is a print link embedded within this post, please visit this post to print it.Note: There is an email link embedded within this post, please visit this post to email it. One hundred and...
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Une tranche de pain bis (A slice of brown bread)
Last week’s Dirty Cookies concerned savoring the unpalatable. Since then, in a recent issue of The Brooklyn Rail, I have come across some of Colette’s many encouragements to savor the rather more...
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Hélène Cixous’s Tomb(e)
Review of Tomb(e) by Hélène Cixous, translated by Laurent Milesi (Seagull Books, 2014). Distributed by The University of Chicago Press. By Walter Cummins What are we to make of prose like this?...
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Film, Marxism: Tanner, Berger, Jonas
If now largely ignored, Alain Tanner and John Berger’s 1976 film Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l’an 2000 (For Jonas Who Will Be 25 In The Year 2000), remains warm, charming, lovable.[1] And the movie is...
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Who is Paris?
As my colleagues at Zeteo, William and Steve, have already pointed out, the sorrow we feel for those who lost their lives or loved ones during the attacks in Paris and Beirut this week is...
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Dylan, Nobel, Paris, Chimes Flashing
Le monde s’étire s’allonge et se retire comme un accordéon qu’une main sadique tourmente The earth stretches elongated and snaps back like an accordion tortured by a sadic hand Dans les déchirures du...
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