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...raised in Marseilles and studied English at the Sorbonne in Paris. Her second 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...
...thing the judges were supposed to love? Instead, Kevin Boyle, an associate professor of history at Ohio State University, turned out to be this year's winner. Although no one in his book wears a powdered wig, Boyle has an irresistible story to tell in Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age (Holt; 415 pages). And tell it he does, sometimes with a novelistic richness, always with a sure feel for tangled motivations and hidden agendas...
...entry, a history tutor and Foreign Cultures 21 TF, to be precise—though the relevance of that claim continues to elude all with whom I’ve shared the fact. Once it has been made clear that this entire saga played out in the stands, and not in his section, anyway...
...soap opera saga that is the Scott Peterson case has finally reached its last leg. The snarky, nefarious California salesman is going to fry—or at least remain locked up for the rest of eternity. While the details of this case are undoubtedly serious and sobering, the mind-boggling amount of media coverage it has garnered is grossly out of proportion with its national importance. In fact, the media circus surrounding this case is downright sickening...
...these are movies tailor-made for societies hurtling into an uncertain future, trailing the baggage of a traditional past. South Korea's most original offering?A Tale of Two Sisters by director Kim Ji Woon?is a case in point. Oh Ki Min, the movie's producer, describes this saga of domestic murder and madness as "a Korean version of American Beauty ... a tale of middle-class family dysfunctionality for a country still under the yoke of Confucian patriarchy." Made for just $3.7 million, the film drew more viewers last year than any horror movie in the country's history...