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In 1832 William Jardine and James Matheson established what would become the greatest British trading company in East Asia in the nineteenth century. After the termination of the East India Company’s monopoly in the tea trade, Jardine, Matheson & Company’s aggressive marketing strategies concentrated on the export of teas and the import of opium, … Read More >

Jan Beveridge’s Children into Swans opens the door on some of the most extraordinary worlds ever portrayed in literature – worlds that are both starkly beautiful and full of horrors.

From a recent review in Library Journal:

In this captivating book, independent researcher Beveridge successfully provides readers with a lively discussion of common concepts and … Read More >

Norman Cheadle’s translation of Leopoldo Marechal’s canonical Argentine novel, Adán Buenosayres, has been reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement!

Here’s a brief excerpt from Richard Canning’s review in this week’s TLS issue:

“Marechal’s remarkable achievement in this novel – for many native readers today, the country’s foundational work of modern fiction – is to … Read More >

The following excerpt is from Felicity Tayler’s review of Paul-Émile Borduas, by François-Marc Gagnon, translated by Peter Feldstein, in the MRB spring 2014 issue.

Walter Benjamin argues that a translation is the transposition of a text from one language to another as both a renewal of the original work and a revival for succeeding generations or … Read More >

Three Percent, part of the University of Rochester’s translation program, is an online resource for international literature. The website was launched in 2007 with the view that “reading literature from other countries is vital to maintaining a vibrant book culture and to increasing the exchange of ideas among cultures. In this age of globalization, … Read More >

The following excerpt is from the Publishers Weekly review of The Politics of the Pantry, by Michael Mikulak.

Mikulak’s experience as a small-scale farmer, coupled with his academic background, gives him unique insights into the food we eat, how we grow it, how we acquire it and how much of it we consume. … Read More >

The following excerpt is from Michael Enright’s tribute to Sheila Fischman – “the doyenne of Canadian translators” – in yesterday’s The Sunday Edition. 

Translation is much more than finding one word to replace another of a different language.
It is, in many ways, as much an art as the act of writing itself.

In 1999, Ms. Fischman … Read More >

The following excerpt is from Andrew Piper’s review of From Literature to Biterature: Lem, Turing, Darwin, and Explorations in Computer Literature, Philosophy of Mind, and Cultural Evolution in the Literary Review of Canada November issue.

The question of whether computers will be able to write depends on the more elementary question of whether computers will be able to … Read More >

Tomorrow! November 5th, 2013
Tracking the Big Picture: Ecological Change in Carolinian Canada

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Burlington, ON
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John Riley will be the keynote speaker presenting The Once and Future Great Lakes Country at the 2013 Ecosystem Recovery Forum.

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The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) recently featured Riley’s The Once and … Read More >

The following is excerpted from the Canadian Poetries review of Wavelengths of Your Song by Eleonore Schönmaier. 

Even had I not read the short biographical note saying  Eleonore Schönmaier ‘divides her time between Canada and The Netherlands,’ I would have wanted to make connections between her poems and the work of 17th century Dutch … Read More >