Seuls en Scène, Princeton French Theater Festival 2024
Various PrincetonSeuls en Scène brings celebrated French actors and directors, as well as promising early-career artists, to Princeton University and the local community to present their work, introducing American audiences to […]
Who Am I to Judge? On Reviewing Works in Translation
144 Louis A. Simpson BuildingMany American critics shy from reviewing translations. Sometimes, this is a manifestation of self-doubt; others, of doubt that a translator can really create a work worth writing about. Of course, […]
What’s the Ancient Greek for “Picnic”?: Adventures in Translating the Odyssey
101 Friend Center and Livestream PrincetonTHE ROBERT FAGLES LECTURE FOR CLASSICS IN THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS In this lecture, author, critic, classicist, and translator Daniel Mendelsohn (*89, *94), whose new translation of Homer's Odyssey will be published […]