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Monthly Archives: May 2022
‘The Small Miracle of Translation’
The novel… is the first in an Indian language to win the International Booker Prize, and the first in Hindi to even secure a nomination… [Translator Daisy Rockwell’s] work on the book showed “the small miracle of translation,” [Frank Wynne, … Continue reading
To Whom It Concerns
Hey, you. I’ll love you every kind of always. (c) 2022 JMN — EthicalDative. All rights reserved
Crisis Antidote: Neighborhood Bookshops
The small shops are sprouting where their readers are, in residential areas, keeping alive the rich literary scene that made Buenos Aires, Argentina’s capital, one of the cities with the most bookstores per capita in the world. “Argentina may always … Continue reading
The Hardest French Word to Pronounce for a Texan
L’aurore (the dawn) “Low roar” is the best we can do. Governor Abbott, born kids have a right to life, too. (c) 2022 JMN — EthcalDative. All rights reserved
A Good Outing: Roger Angell (1920-2022)
“It is foolish and childish, on the face of it, to affiliate ourselves with anything so insignificant and patently contrived and commercially exploitative as a professional sports team,” he wrote in his book “Five Seasons” (1977). “What is left out … Continue reading
Bah-BOOM-BOOM Riff
To Her One’s home is her castle,a refuge from hustleand bustle of office,the jostle of mobs;nest in which refuge to seekfrom apostles of doomby the wherry that’s painted on woodon a wall of the room. Kitchen to mortar and pestlethe … Continue reading
‘Drawings Are the Great Teachers’
… The mark-making basic to drawing is the starting point of so much else: the development of written language, numbers, musical scores. Drawings are the great teachers; they educate the eye and make us more conscious of seeing. They present … Continue reading
They Put the ‘Art’ in Partnering
Sally Michel (1902-2003) was 17 years his junior when she married Milton Avery (1885-1965) in 1926. A painter herself, she provided income as a freelance illustrator for 30 years while he painted full time. He never had a studio, and … Continue reading
Cry the Belovèd Reader
“Mandible Wishbone Solvent” by Asiya Wadud (Poetry, March 2022). Pass 3 of 3. Previous comment: https://ethicaldative.com/2022/04/25/mandible-wishbone-solvent-pass-1-of-3/https://ethicaldative.com/2022/05/01/mandible-wishbone-solvent-pass-2-of-3/ You. Be. Here. It’s an affirming imperative to exist, or be situate, in the speaker’s space-time. It’s addressed to “tilt” — twice “tender” now … Continue reading
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Language Is a Weapon, Too. Keep It Sharp
… Any honest accounting shows that more of the blame for these senseless rampages lays at the feet of bought-and-paid-for politicians who have blocked any reasonable gun control measures in order to retain their own hold on power. (Kara Swisher, … Continue reading →