The pivotal scene that made me determined to do a new translation of Victor Hugo’s “Le Roi s’amuse.” (See a staged reading of my translation on April 19 in San Francisco!)
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On election-eve anxiety, E.M. Forster, and the audacity of believing in our fellow Americans, in spite of everything.
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A celebration of Stephen Sondheim’s 89th birthday, and some thoughts about a recent quote of his that makes him sound like, well, a very old man.
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