Bookshop of the Month: Heywood Hill
At 10 Curzon Street in Mayfair, London, you will find Heywood Hill – our bookshop of the month…
Literature
Curiosity: The Question of ‘Why?’
Alberto Manguel is a tour de force when it comes to reading, and in fact all things book…
Celebrating Poets: The Yale Younger Poets prize
World Poetry Day, on 21 March, is an event organised by the United Nations to ‘recognise the unique…
Alan Titley On Translating Cré na Cille
Cré na Cille or The Dirty Dust by Máirtín Ó Cadhain was originally published in 1949, but has only recently become available…
Margellos World Republic of Letters: From Tolstoy to Modiano
The Margellos World Republic of Letters brings together canonical works of literature and fiction originally written in languages…
Marian Schwartz on Translating Tolstoy
We had the chance to sit down with prolific translator Marian Schwartz to talk about her latest translation…
Hospitality and Treachery: Something Wicked This Way Comes
As you gather people around your table this festive season, sharing hospitality with friends and neighbours, spare a…
Five 2014 Paperbacks for your Pocket
Everyone enjoys a good paperback. The fun, cheerful alternative to its stuffy corset-wearing older sister the hardback, a…
An Interview with Mark Polizzotti
We had the privilege of sitting down to talk with Mark Polizzotti, who, among other things, has recently…
Modiano: a scholar’s perspective
In 2014, French author Patrick Modiano stepped – uncharacteristically – into the limelight by winning the Nobel Prize…
A Conversation with Tim Parks: A YaleBooks Podcast
Shortly before his death in 1837, Giacomo Leopardi, a prolific Italian writer, translator, and thinker, began to organise…
Giacomo Leopardi: Passions, reviewed
Giacomo Leopardi’s Passions is a new volume in Yale’s critically acclaimed Margellos World Republic of Letters series. This…
Quiet Resonance: Translating Patrick Modiano
Notes on Patrick Modiano and Suspended Sentences from the translator, Mark Polizzotti – 2014 At first blush, the…
Patrick Modiano: Nobel Prize winner
On 9th October 2014 Patrick Modiano became the 107th winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Peter Englund, the…
Emotional Intelligence: Round-up
Ever found yourself wondering what the range of complex emotions we experience as human beings are for? Could…