This fall Ecco and Knopf will release two new translations of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. PW examines both sides of the coin -- from cover treatment to translators to the prevalence of French -- and the choice facing readers as they decide which version to purchase. The article, "It's War (and Peace), As Rival Translations Head to Bookstores", happily pits the two houses against one another, filtering in comments from each front (and a few other places). It's a fun read and ends with the obligatory quote that promotes good sportsmanship and success to all.
Another head-to-head article appears in today's WSJ: "Fortune as Fate: The Story Of Two Poetry Magazine." Willard Speigelman, Hughes Professor of English at Southern Methodist University, pays tribute to the literary magazine Parnassus, to which he contributed for the past 25 years. The magazine will publish its 30th and last volume later this year. The story compares the shoe-string travails of Parnassus to Poetry Magazine's current plenitude. "As Wallace Stevens, insurance man and poet extraordinaire, once said: 'Money is a kind of poetry.'"
And for a visual treat, Wallace Berman photographs are up at Tam Tam Books.
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