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“I am a reader because I have my own view of literature; what it should be; what buttons to sew on a novel’s sleeves…”
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A Matter of Attraction
Author, translator, scholar, and teacher Louis Jolicoeur discusses translation theory and practice and his book La sirène et le pendule.
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Stone Blades
From a small-town childhood to a postwar lumber camp to the throes of the Quiet Revolution, Des lames de pierre keeps returning to one central concern: What does it mean to set words down on paper?
Review, Translation
Grande plaine IV
Think back to a road trip you’ve taken. Grande Plaine IV is a bit like that road trip: funny and sweet, clever and heartfelt. Young.
Review, Translation
Nina
A straightforward detective story full of great, gritty, and questionable characters quickly spins into a self-reflexive narrative, twisted in on itself.
Comment, On Translation
Sweet détresse
Daniel Grenier discusses his skillful and unabashedly Québécois translation of Anna Leventhal’s Sweet Affliction.
Review, Translation
Preaching to the Fish
Le sermon aux poissons is the first book in a Lisbon-based trilogy that loves nothing more than to blur the lines between myth and reality.
Translation
Burqa of Skin
Her sad soul would stay close to Holt Renfrew, maybe even after Holt Renfrew might move, for example, to Toronto, and without Holt Renfrew at any time consenting to open the doors that would lead to her salvation, to her dress.
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Underdog Superhero
Every year the thought of a new Blais keeps us afloat, our heads above water, promising us that, once we’ve finished our homework, we will be free, at last, to go out and play.