Review of The Art of War by Sun Tzu (translated by Lionel Giles)
I’d bet far more people have heard of this influential Chinese classic than have read it.
Reviews
Review and Summary of Arrival (2016 movie)
Quibble how you will about inaccuracies in the depiction of linguistics, the fact that Hollywood deigns to depict a linguist at all is nice.
Review of The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (translated by Ken Liu)
It’s as if Kafka decided to write a book with Carl Sagan, M.C. Escher, and the author of Flatland, and set it in China.
Review of Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (translated by a commitee)
There must be better translations out there. I just read the free one from Gutenberg.