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How to translate JapaneseJAY RUBIN <><><><><> <> Minae Mizumura THE FALL OF LANGUAGE IN THE AGE OF ENGLISH Translated by Mari Yoshihara and Juliet Winters Carpenter 256pp. Columbia University Press. £24 (US $35). 978 0 231 16302 6 <><><><><><> TLS Published: 17 June 2015Naoko (Rinko Kikuchi) and Midori..

In search of the zeitgeistMaren Thom Writer A new book explores the risk-averse spirit of our times. Spiked 2 October 2015 Ulrich Beck, the renowned sociologist who died earlier this year, captured the contemporary zeitgeist, the spirit of our time, like few others. His worldview is best summed up by the title of his book Risk Society. He painted society as an inherently destru..

"Once Upon a Time” in Translation A publisher brings world literature to young Anglophones. by Spencer Lenfield Harvard Magazine/November-December 2015 Adam Freudenheim Photograph courtesy of Pushkin Publishing Most American kids have probably never heard of Tonke Dragt’s The Letter for the King—a fantasy tale of good and evil, feuding kingdoms, and a questing teenag..

“책 만드는 장인, 책바치 정신이 현암사의 밑심”한겨레신문 등록 :2015-11-10 20:29 조미현 대표‘3대째 출판 가업’ 현암사 조미현 대표 ‘70년 책바치, 100년을 향해 나아갑니다.’ 1945년 해방과 함께 태어나 ‘해방 70돌의 동갑내기’가 된 출판사. 현암사 조미현(45) 대표가 창업 70돌을 맞아..

Blinded by LoveEdward Rothstein Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality by Edward Frenkel Basic Books, 304 pp., USD$16.99 Edward Rothstein is the author of “Emblems of Mind: The Inner Life of Music and Mathematics” and is Critic at Large for The Wall Street Journal. article.article-text p.section-break { padding-top: 2.1rem; } As Plato suggested, there is something eroti..

The real Stephen Spender as seen by his son in ‘A House in St. John’s Wood’By Michael Dirda The Washington Post November 4, 2015 (Farrar Straus Giroux) Matthew Spender — the son of poet Stephen Spender and pianist Natasha Spender — opens his remarkable memoir with a double whammy. On Oct. 21, 2010, he learns of his mother’s death at her London house in St. ..

The intolerable dream by Gary Saul Morson Don Quixote at four hundred The New Criterion / November 2015 via Its admirers call it “the Quixote,” as if to say “the masterpiece” or even “the universe.” Cervantes’s novel, completed exactly four hundred years ago, established him as one of the greatest writers in world literature. In his recent book, Quixote: The Nove..

"20년간 法堂서 숙식… 그때 번 28억 모두 바쳤다" 어수웅 기자 입력 : 2015.07.27 03:00 | 수정 : 2015.07.27 10:20 '출판 女王' 박은주 前 김영사 사장, 잠적 1년 2개월 만에 '김영사 미스터리' 폭로 朴 前사장, 김강유 김영사 회장을 350억 배임·횡령 고소 "1984년부터 20년간 용돈 20만원으로 생활… 회..

Why Max Weber matters DUNCAN KELLY Peter Ghosh MAX WEBER AND “THE PROTESTANT ETHIC” Twin histories 424pp. Oxford University Press. £30 (US $49.95). Published: 11 February 2015/TLS Max Weber, c.1900 Photograph: AKG We hope you enjoy this free piece from the TLS, which is available every Thursday in print and via the TLS app. This week’s issue also features Schiller’..

박근혜 정부가 국정화라는 '표준'에 집착하는 이유 [서평] 로런스 부시의 <표준: 현실을 만드는 레시피> 15.10.12 10:20l최종 업데이트 15.10.12 10:20l 정은균(jek1015) 오마이뉴스 역사 교과서 '국정화' 문제가 정국의 핵이 되고 있다. 박근혜 정부는 국민 대다수가 반대하는 역사 교과서 국정화 ..