What is a good literary or poetry magazine, in French, that publishes translations and that is not terribly hard to get into? One of my undergraduates has published translations to English in Alchemy (a translation journal for students) and Tripwire (a poetry journal, not just for students), and I know of many other places to … More A serious question, and lagniappe
Our luck has changed and the tide is turning, I can feel it. I have had this feeling once before that I can identify clearly–something was happening, I did not know what it was, but it was good, I knew–and I recognize it now. Axé.
Our library actually owns a copy of this book by Guillermo de Torre, so I am recycling my xeroxed pieces of it. These sorts of items I like to keep around me, as they are mementos of my love for the field and of my innocence, in the time before I thought I must renounce … More La aventura estética de nuestra edad
I would not frame the discussion in terms of success and failure, instructions for success, but I think this post gets closer to a useful discussion of how to do an academic job than do most in the genre. The activities it discusses are, of course, the ones that interest me and also interested me … More Pour penser
It is as though we had been through a long war and it were finally over, and we had had losses but had won, were in a position to pick up our lives again. Perhaps we have been through a long war that is now over, have had losses but have won, and are in … More La fin
I was saying things about academia, how I dislike it because it requires you to renounce the things you love most about it. That is about working at institutions that work against your programs, of course, and I won’t say this is not a real problem, and that it is not highly irritating. But “renouncing … More On giving up what you love most
We will talk about this. I would like to teach Quintín Lame along with Macunaíma and other Indian things, and perhaps I will. Axé.
The article in Our Heritage, with photographs and stories of adventure in the CCCP from 1918 forward Paintings of Olga Bari-Aizenman [Note: Simeon Aizenman, a lawyer, was from Yalta] Paintings of Alexei Aizenman [This and most other sites also include family photographs] A.V. Bari on Wikipedia Moscow walks past the old factory Printing press building by … More An archive on Александр Бари, the Samoilovs, the Aizenmans, and related beings and creations
My great-great grandmother from Mitau. She was born in 1822, before the town was swallowed up by Riga. Latvia had been annexed to Russia in 1795. Here she is in the early to mid 1840s. She is with her first son Alexander, who died at 18 months. Her second son Alexander was born in St. … More Henrietta S. Kahn
On an English side of my family is this great-great-great-great grandmother, born in Virginia in 1750. And the corresponding great-great-great-great grandfather, and a child. And me, of course. These ancestors had a daughter who married Francis Scott Key. He wrote the Star-Spangled Banner, and we know a great deal about that song, so this is … More Great-great-great-great
