The Truth About Lies

Homogenised Tongues

“Look!” he said. “The people are united, and they all speak the same language. After this, nothing they set out to do will be impossible for them!” – Genesis 11:9

You say tomato, I say tomahto. You say stranger, I say outsider.

Beyond a certain point one cannot reconcile the demands of translation and of poetry, and one must opt for one or the other – A.C. Graham, introduction to Poems of the Late T’ang A while ago I reviewed The Jaguar’s Dream which is a collec

Pnin

He is not a very nice person but he is fun – Nabokov describing the character of Pnin in a letter to his editor at The New Yorker Readers of my third novel, The More Things Change, which at the current moment in time comprise a not entirely s