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Found in Translation

BY RICK DAVIS In some sort of ideal world, language would not be a barrier to cultural understanding.  Literature, scholarship, sacred texts, jokes, journalism, nuance and even subtext would flow across actual and virtual borders.  Difference would be celebrated without being flattened out.  Access to rhythms of words (and life), patterns of thought, hopes, dreams, [...]

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The Globalization of Augie March

BY ALAN CHEUSE Here’s an obscure moment, that when it first happened, seemed to me to be an example of I didn’t know what, but now shines through the fog  as a precursor of some news to come: about ten years ago I served on a jury that decided one of the largest international literary [...]

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