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Crafting a human text is like wrestling a wild animal
On Cécile Wajsbrot’s « Nevermore », Eva Meijer’s « Een woord voor », and the constant self-flagellation that comes with putting words to paper.
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Yugoslavia was Europe’s last open door for Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler. It was nobody’s dream.
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A visit to an Irish subsea cable landing station. Its engineers need to know all about scallop fishers and Russian saboteurs.
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The libidinal thrill in fascism: on the German far-right’s sexy phantoms.
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Snow in August: Winter as a disappearing cultural construct.
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Are French sex workers wittier? The prostitute as a marker of national sexual character.
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A Peruvian farmer sued German energy company RWE claiming damages for flood risk to his home in the Andes.
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A good interpreter is an invisible interpreterThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
In the interpreting booths of the Yugoslavia Tribunal, neutrality was the job. Even for those translators whose lives had been ruined by the men whose words they were rendering.
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*wīrós (man), *h₁ék̂wōs (horse), *gwéneh₂ (woman)
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