A lot of the talk about translation done by people who don't think all that deeply about it—even professional translators!—focuses on things like accuracy and faithfulness, but I find that tends to work around assumptions that are worth investigating. Like, when something is "accurate," we…
Continue reading...120 Murders: Dark Fiction Inspired by the Alternative Era is an anthology with an alluringly simple theme: noir/crime/horror-ish stories built around alternative music of the 1990s. Might as well have just called it "Big Book of Gen X Midlife Crisis." I read a copy from…
Continue reading...So, as mentioned previously, my books are now in the Hikari City Public Library. But apparently that wasn't the end of my library adventures. The other day, I stopped by my neighborhood sake shop and the owner told me the library's new head, who had…
Continue reading...Figuratively as well as literally. When I got a whole bunch of comp copies of both editions of Strange Pictures, for more than I knew what to do with, the first place I went was to the library to see if I could donate some…
Continue reading...The Philosophy of Translation by Damion Searls Yale University Press I learned about this book from a post on Bluesky, which included the a quote about translation as reading that sparked something in my brain. I had to read more, because I personally view translation…
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