Topic: George Steiner

Centering on Marginaliaby Mark O’Connell

New Yorker - 20 days ago
In getting my books," Edgar Allan Poe wrote in 1844, "I have always been solicitous of an ample margin; this is not so much through any love of the...

In the News: Real Recommendations, Gone with the Windex

New Yorker - 41 days ago
Remembering Josef Skvorecky, publisher of banned books and a Nobel-nominated author. . . This Tokyo bookstore doesn't need a fancy algorithm to...

Literary and Cultural Values and Their Sense of Their Reader's Expectations

ArticlesBase - 503 days ago
Damrosch likewise affirms that "comparing even brief passages can reveal a host of choices that different translators have made," including, in particular, insight into their "literary and cultural values and their sense of their reader's expectations". Even without knowledge of the ...