EPISODE 13 of THE ARTISAN PARLOR, this time with academic and scholar, David Banica (⁜ David Bănică ⁜ 🇷🇴). I connected with David after listening to his X space/series on Mircea Eliade, conducted in tandem with Classical Odyssey. David also recently reviewed Eliade's Time, Death, and

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For the weekend: a podcast with George Szirtes on translation! We talked about translating monumental works like Madách's verse drama The Tragedy of Man, Krasznahorkai's The Melancholy of Resistance, and Sátántangó. Plus new poems by Krisztina Tóth. 🎙️ hlo.hu/interview/hlo-…

“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

And the review of our recent collection of short stories by the philosopher and historian of religions: 'Time, Death and the Unspeakable Secret", edited by Prof. Bryan Rennie, published in May

". . . this is literature worth paying attention to; it is a positive intellectual joy to find your mind entangled in his philosophically charged plots." TIME, DEATH & THE UNSPEAKABLE SECRET reviewed in this week's The TLS the-tls.com/literature-by-…

"One of the central notions of his theory of religion, for example, is that the sacred is not clearly separated from the profane, but “camouflaged” under various secular guises. The stories collected in Time, Death, and the Unspeakable Secret illustrate that notion." Review

The Cosmic Man ---------- For those of you that have missed previous spaces, please enjoy this small introduction I wrote to what I consider the most prescient themes in the works of Romanian scholar and intellectual, Mircea Eliade. (Link in bio)

Summer reading: Two new books which will uplift your summer, whether home or away. Available directly from our website, from bookshops or online. Each order counts. Keeps us going.

Albertine Sarrazin's 'The Crib and Other Stories' Reviewed by David Rose ExactingClam exactingclam.com/issues/no-17-s…

#translationthurs recent reads

"...Grandma Non-Oui’s story is history itself, where the personal and political are forever intertwined. Such are the stories we pass along." Grandma Non-Oui – Lidija Dimkovska via Full Stop full-stop.net/2025/02/03/rev…

UK, "Death and The Gardener", translated by Angela Rodel, published by W&N, London, 2025

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” — Henry David Thoreau

Reminiscent of Alan Hollinghurst's handling of the minutiae of social significance, Amory Crane's story of holiday tension is a subtly crafted joy. Click on the link below to read!

A touching gift received from my mentor.