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On Japanese Handwriting Goro Murahata Inference International Review of Science February 2018 In response to “Handmade” (Vol. 3, No. 3). To the editors: I am honored to be invited to respond to Vivian Cook’s critical review of the paper by Pagliarini et al. In his review, Cook cautiously argues against the conclusions drawn from a childhood handwriting experiment in Italy, and its implications f..

Man of Sorrows: On Terry Eagleton’s “Tragedy” By Rhodri Lewis LARB JANUARY 5, 2021 AS A FRESHMAN UNDERGRADUATE in 1995, I counted myself lucky to attend a university at which I could hear Terry Eagleton lecture in the flesh. He was the author of the book with which I had dutifully-excitedly shut myself away for a large portion of that summer: Literary Theory: An Introduction, which remains a far..

Fyodor Dostoevsky: philosopher of freedom On the political and moral lessons of Fyodor Dostoevsky. by Gary Saul Morson The New Criterion Features January 2021 On December 22, 1849, a group of political radicals were taken from their prison cells in Petersburg’s Peter and Paul Fortress, where they had been interrogated for eight months. Led to the Semenovsky Square, they heard a sentence of death..

Charles Dickens, the Writer Who Saw Lockdown Everywhere For the novelist, imprisonment wasn’t just a stain on society; it was an aspect of the self. By Laurence Scott New Yorker December 24, 2020 In February of 1824, Charles Dickens watched in anguish as his father was arrested for debt and sent to the Marshalsea prison, just south of the Thames, in London. “I really believed at the time,” Dicke..

The Translator Relay: Jack Jung By Words Without Borders Dec 3, 2020 WWB’s Translator Relay features an interview with a different translator every few months. The current month’s translator will choose the next interviewee, adding a different, sixth question. For December's installment, Don Mee Choi passed the baton to Jack Jung, who translates between Korean and English. What is your connectio..

The Undying Half-Life of Yiddish By Marc Caplan Los Angeles Review of Books NOVEMBER 23, 2020 1935년의 이디시어 사용 인구[2]합계10,690,000명 유럽-러시아를 포함한 중동유럽 6,767,000명 서유럽 317,000명 이스라엘 285,000명 이스라엘 밖의 다른 아시아 지역 14,000명 북미 2,987,000명 중남미 255,000명 오스트레일리아 9,000명 아프리카 56,000명 - 위키백과에서 퍼 왔음 ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, when most American Jews were immigrants from Eastern Europe, nearly every Jew in the United State..

William Faulkner’s Demons In his own life, the novelist failed to truly acknowledge the evils of slavery and segregation. But he did so with savage thoroughness in his fiction. By Casey Cep The New Yorker November 30, 2020 Issue November 23, 2020 A new book, “The Saddest Words,” examines Faulkner’s struggles with himself.Illustration by Seth What if the North had won the Civil War? That technica..

On Poets and Prizes Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young ASAP Journal November 16, 2020 Some days we think of poetry as a dead antelope and poets as the wolves, hyenas, and coyotes who come to fight over the innards, teeth bared, growling. Some days we think of poetry as the center panel of Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights with poets as the naked libertines in small groups that notice only each o..

Death’s Traffic Light Blinks Red By Cathy Park Hong The Paris Review October 20, 2020 Arts & Culture Choi Seungja. Photo: Sinyong Kim. Courtesy of Action Books. Choi Seungja is one of the most influential feminist poets in South Korea. Born in 1952, Choi emerged as a poet during the eighties, a turbulent and violent decade that saw nationwide democracy movements against the authoritarian governm..

Love and Desolation: Remembering Eileen Chang(張愛玲) James Jiang Sydny Review of Books Sept. 29, 2020 James Jiang is a writer and academic who teaches at the University of Melbourne.... Essays by James Jiang This month marks the centenary of the birth of Eileen Chang (Zhang Ailing), one of the most celebrated modern authors in the Chinese-speaking world. Chang is largely remembered for the works w..