Review of 1984 by George Orwell
Orwell had it wrong. You don’t have to change or destroy existing records to change the truth. You just have to bury them under a slew of new ones.
Mots D’Heures: Gousses, Rames
This book is mind-blowing! My French teacher had it when I was in high school… 20 years later I was thrilled when I found a copy of my own.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in Russian
Cyrillic: Incomprehensible yet blessedly phonetic!
Review of The Social Cancer / Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal (translated by Charles Derbyshire)
This “review” contains quotes from the book and explanations for why I chose them.
Calvin and Hobbes Books in Translation
Someday, I want to get my hands on the Spanish, Dutch, and Czech translations of this same book.
Review of I Am a Cat by Soseki Natsume (translated by Aiko Ito and Graeme Wilson)
This “review” consists of some quotes from the book and explanations for why I chose them.
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.
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.
The Little Prince in Thai (and as a pop-up book)
My collection of copies of The Little Prince just got bigger!