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...translation, Stephen Marlowe's Memoirs of Christopher Columbus, won the Prix Grévisse translation award, and she turned to books by John Irving. In 1999, she began her first Roth translation - the awesome family saga American Pastoral - and met the author at a colloquium on his writing in Aix-en-Provence. Since then, she has regularly consulted him on her translations, a luxury his other translators don't enjoy. "She comes to see me and we work together," Roth says. "She also writes me with questions about American references that aren't clear to her. Few translators have bothered...
Last Wednesday’s Red Sox comeback spurred Harvard’s largest outpouring of mass hysteria since Satire V started selling homophobic T-shirts. Hardcore Sox fans born and bred in places like Alabama, Seattle and Aix-en-Provence (aren’t they supposed to play soccer?) donned their newly-purchased Sox Gear and pretended to cause a fuss—Harvard style. That included crazy shit like running down the street in large groups (we’re talking five and six here), shouting stuff really loud on a school night, and that sin of sins...
...including the renowned Avignon Pietà, a large, luminous painting of the dead Christ awkwardly laid across his mother's knees, with John the Baptist, in an unusual gesture, removing his crown of thorns. In the terrific little show's biggest coup, the separate and fragile panels of the Aix Annunciation triptych are brought together - from Aix-en-Provence, Brussels, Amsterdam and Rotterdam - for the first time since 1932. (Two of the cities had but half a panel each.) Attributed to Barthélemy d'Eyck, the magnificent altarpiece, depicting an angel appearing to the Virgin Mary, conceals the devils...
...marquee events were canceled - including the legendary Avignon festival, shut down for the first time in its 57-year history. On Thursday, Avignon director Bernard Faivre d'Arcier somberly announced his program had fallen victim to unruly protests by striking performing-arts workers - strikes that torpedoed music festivals in Aix-en-Provence and La Rochelle earlier in the week. Many more events in France's annual calendar of 650 arts fests are also expected to fold, depriving hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers of their summer culture fix. The demonstrations by performance workers - from actors and choreographers to roadies - are part...
...Aix also provides a base for exploring the Mediterranean, lower Alps and Provencal countryside. Retirees flock to Aix in part because of the pleasant climate but also because there are two hospitals and 23 medical centers. There are also 10 tennis clubs, five golf courses and eight riding stables in the vicinity, as well as the recently renovated Thermes Sextius spa, located above the excavated foundation of the old Roman baths. An "olive-tree route" guides visitors to mills and presses at some of the area's 5,435 olive producers...