Lost in translation
Why are we so content to minimize and forget the work of translators?
Elena ferrante
Thursday
Monday
On literary cross-dressing
The pre-woke literary world considered authorial freedom sacrosanct
Wednesday
Elena Ferrante’s Italian job
Ferrante was the Flaubert of the Pantsuit Nation, a harbinger of Hillary’s page-turning presidency
Monday
The real Elena Ferrante is a male-female collaboration, but HBO’s My Brilliant Friend is a man’s world
My Brilliant Friend reviewed
Friday
The Spice Girls sang about empowerment – better than the #MeToo whinging
The recent news of a Spice Girls reunion will, I suspect, be greeted by some former fans with nostalgic longing and others with an embarrassed cringe. But whether you’re a fan or foe, I think it’s worth remembering that golden decade of Girl Power — the 1990s — when it was bliss to be young … Read more
