February 2008: The Graphic World: (Worth) Ten Thousand Words, Part II

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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 nonspecific vantage that…

Nonfiction by Lawrence Venuti

Translations on the Market

At the Frankfurt Book Fair, where thousands of publishers from around the world annually squeeze inside huge exhibition halls to buy and sell foreign rights, a typical booth contains several tiny tables…

Fiction by Triunfo Arciniegas

Wings, Two for One

Truth is I finish the day tired. No wonder. Business is going from bad to worse. In decline, as they say. People don't dispose of as much money as before, or as much faith. In these wicked times people…

Translated from Spanish by Steve Dolph

Fiction by Ray Loriga

from “Trifero”

Kiss Me Little Lotte, as he liked to call her, was a robust Norwegian measuring five foot ten in stocking feet, six foot three in her skates. Her grandmother, as you'll have guessed already, was the…

Translated from Spanish by Samantha Schnee

Book Reviews

Mario Vargas Llosa’s “The Bad Girl”

Reviewed by Brendan Hughes

Mario Vargas Llosa's engaging novel The Bad Girl is not only a story of thwarted love, it reveals a haunted swath of the third world diaspora. Its characters are cast about the globe like seeds in…...

Pascal Mercier’s “Night Train to Lisbon”

Reviewed by Robert Buckeye

Lisbon Calling We speak about the book that changed our life, the encounter that sent us down a path, the person who turned us around. It is at such moments we say we become who we are, and we can no longer,…...

by Philippe Dupuy

Run Movie 6: The Duck

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Translated from French by Helge Dascher

by Cho Pyŏng Kwŏn

from Great General Mighty Wing

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Translated from Korean by Heinz Insu Fenkl

by Mazen Kerbaj

A Happy Childhood

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Translated from French by Edward Gauvin

by Magdy El Shafee

from “Metro”

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Translated from Arabic by Humphrey Davies

Nonfiction by Carmen Boullosa

Their Boots Were Made for Walking: El Taller de la Gráfica Popular

"Don't tell me you want to return to those days without democracy, the PRI's?"

Translated from Spanish by Samantha Schnee

by Liniers

from “Rabbit on the Road”

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Translated from Spanish by Samantha Schnee

by Alberto Fuguet and Gonzalo Martinez

from “Road Story”

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Translated from Spanish by Samantha Schnee

by Pahé

from “Life of Pahé”

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Translated from French by Edward Gauvin

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