From Amis to Zola
Annals of literary invective: Faulkner once called Twain a “hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe.”
Annals of literary invective: Faulkner once called Twain a “hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe.”
Paul Ford, mastermind of the Harper’s website, talks paywalls at The Awl. (The subscription is worth it for the archives alone.)
Russian poet Alexander Gorodnitsky went in search of the remnants of the Yiddish language and culture that thrived before WWII in his parents’ hometown.
Open Letter and Russian Life concurrently published translations of Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov’s The Golden Calf. Now they’re debating whose version better represents the original.