Financial Times
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The Rumpus Interview with Jon Day
Jon Day discusses his memoir, Cyclogeography: Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier, the bicycle as a symbol of gentrification, and the city as “a technology for living.”
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Translation Grows Trendy
Translated literature is as much a product of the translator as it is the writer. After years of in the doldrums, literature in translation is making a resurgence as the art and skill has modernized. The Financial Times takes a look…
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Bringing Tolstoy to the West
More people were reading Tolstoy than any other author in translation at the beginning of the 20th century, but as late as the 1880s, few non-Russians had even heard of him. Translators were deterred partly because of the length of…
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Junot Díaz Plans A Holiday Vacation
Summer isn’t over yet. Read what Junot Díaz, Donald Trump, and others have planned before the weather turns cold. And may we all be as lucky as Junot: Once on a beach in Jamaica, right before an October storm swept…
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Pixels vs. Paper
There’s long been debate over e-books vs. paper books. Now, the Financial Times reports on new research that shows that digital devices encourage deep reading while printed books are better for an active learning. But, in the end, “there doesn’t seem to…
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The Economics of Book Festivals
These days, you can’t throw a book without hitting a book festival. The Jaipur Literature Festival, the world’s biggest literature festival, is reported to have had 200,000 attendees this spring. In Britain alone, there are over 350 book festivals a…
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The OED in the Global Age
Revising the OED is no easy feat. Following a rare change in the dictionary’s leadership, Lorien Kite takes the opportunity to explore the implications of the most recent additions to the OED, the evolution of language, and the role of…
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What’s Roth Been Up To?
In an interview with the Financial Times, the seasoned 78 year-old author, Philip Roth, has decidedly sworn off reading fiction by way of saying, “‘I’ve stopped reading fiction. I don’t read it at all. I read other things: history, biography.…