27 Interviews entries in Mag: Articles
Translating Dino Buzzati: A Conversation with Marina Harss
In addition to her freelance writing for the New Yorker’s Goings On About Town and her frequent forays into dance criticism, Marina Harss is also a versatile and prolific translator from ...
from “I Can’t Stand Still”: An Interview with Jáchym Topol
Weiss: What was your first time out of the country? Topol: My first time was in East Germany with my mom. She took my brother and me to the seaside there. That change—all of a sudden ...
An Interview with Wu Wenjian
From the series "Eternal Sorrow," by Wu Wenjian With the help of two artist friends, I recently met Wu Wenjian, a worker-turned-painter, at the 798 Arts Factory, a thriving ...
Interviews Etgar Keret on Tradition, Translation, and Alien Toasters
Adam Rovner interviews Etgar Keret as part of WWB's month-long discussion of Etgar Keret's Girl on the Fridge. You can find links to other posts and essays in this series at the bottom ...
An Interview with Adrian Tomine
Over 800 pages and eleven years in the making, A Drifting Life is a monumental achievement and the long-waited autobiography of legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi. Called the ...
This Animated Life: An Interview with David Polonsky
An interview with David Polonsky, the artist behind the Oscar-nominated film and graphic novel Waltz with Bashir. A few simple descriptions would suffice to understand just how rich and ...
Scheherazade, C’est Moi? An Interview with Amara Lakhous
Algeria was imploding into civil war in 1993 when Amara Lakhous, born in 1970 in Algiers, wrote his first novel. But no bombs go off in The Bedbugs and the Pirate, the inner monologue of a ...
In Conversation
Buket Uzuner: I met Claire Messud in Istanbul in November 2007 while she was visiting the city as one of the guest writers of the Istanbul Book Fair. A week before I met her, I started to read ...
on Translating “Yalo”
Drake Stutesman: Yalo is interesting for the various different voices that it employs, and the ways in which it combines vernaculars, languages and perspectives into a single narrative. What ...
An Interview with Péter Esterházy
Péter Esterházy is one of Hungary's foremost contemporary novelists, having won literary distinctions both at home and abroad. A number of his works, including Helping Verbs ...
on Walser and the Visual Arts
Sam Jones: What is it about Walser, do you think, that speaks so powerfully to artists? Tom Whalen: An image, a rhythm, a setting, a philosophical conundrum—I imagine anything out of ...
Reads Walser in an Abandoned School Bus
1. How did you discover Walser, and what first inspired you to undertake a translation of his work? In the spring of 1973, in the forests of Arkansas, specifically in the woods between ...
Knows Meier
1. How did you discover Walser, and what first inspired you to undertake a translation of his work? Two of my friends, T. and M., love Walser very much. I can't remember which of them ...
On Translating Walser
1. How did you discover Walser, and what first inspired you to undertake a translation of his work? On first coming across Walser in graduate school I found his voice beguiling and, at ...
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Joseph Brodsky
Between 2003 and 2004, Valentina Polukhina conducted a series of interviews about Nobel Prize in Literature recipient Joseph Brodsky. She spoke with former Brodsky student and executive ...
The Silence of the Outcasts: An Interview with Dacia Maraini
(Pescasseroli, Easter 2005) To meet with Dacia Maraini and speak with her in peace means going up to the bitter and severe lands of Abruzzo where the writer, who lives in Rome, takes refuge ...
Taken from Life: An Interview with Gipi
By Nicole Rudick The appeal of some translated works lies in their ability to relate specific events to a broad foreign audience. Others operate in reverse, projecting a ...
The Last Farm Novel?: An Interview with Michiel Heyns
I met Michiel Heyns—author, translator, and professor of English at Stellenbosch University from 1987 until 2003—last year when he was here in the U.S. as a visiting professor ...
An Interview with Hisham Matar
Concern. I think that was what I craved. A warm and steady and unchangeable concern. In a time of blood and tears, in a Libya full of bruise-checkered and urine-stained men, urgent with ...
An Interview with Jacqueline Loss
How did you select the Cuban pieces for the anthology, Literature from the "Axis of Evil"? I combed through Cuban print and Internet literary journals*Š and I spoke with ...
