Academic and translator, from Co. Kerry. Likes dinosaurs, cakes, and long-distance running. New book, White Magic: amzn.to/2TibPaa
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Friends, readers, and Kindle owners! I am so happy this #TranslationThursday that my book White Magic is now available for purchase in the UK at a reasonable price (£12) without the bugbear of transatlantic postage, and only a fiver on Kindle! amazon.co.uk/White-Magic-Rus…
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Very happy to have written a few words about @drpollyjones' excellent new book on Gulag fiction for @TheTLS. Really terrific overview and close readings of various texts and trends, older and recent!
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In Russian Culture under Putin Eliot Borenstein explores the key phenomena of Russian cultural life in the 21st century to the backdrop of the slow boil control that has proven an essential component of Putinism. bit.ly/4iaTpPt
Read an excerpt bit.ly/4i6MM0y
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'Chekhov saw both the value and the threat in self-assurance, which, when coupled with ignorance and unchecked emotion, could prove disastrous.'
Boris Dralyuk on Anton Chekhov’s commitment to hard-won dignity
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By complete coincidence I was invited to talk about this on BBC Radio 4 ((#TodayProgramme) this morning. As usual, I shared a fraction of what I would have liked to say! I'm on at about 8.55 am... #Dostoevsky #translation #reading
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16 Dec 2024
Many thanks to the team at @ToppingsStAs, which I visited nearly every day during my time in Fife!
On the ninth day of Christmas, my bookseller gave to me...
A phenomenal crime novel! Benjamin recommends 'The Silver Bone' by Andrey Kurkov. Here is what Benjamin says about this book...
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Delighted that this groundbreaking monograph by @CathyMcAteer1 is out & available #OpenAccess! Many thanks @ERC_Research and @UniofExeter - another great study of #translation #politics and #gender from the @Rustransdark project! Please RT @aseeestudies @BASEES @ExeterModLangs
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Cold War Women by Cathy McAteer presents original archival research on eight largely unknown émigré translators whose work during the Cold War actively contributed to the reception of Russian and Soviet literature throughout the English-speaking world.
🔓 bit.ly/3BmxTGV
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Fyodor fever: how Dostoevsky became a social media sensation theguardian.com/books/2024/d…
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'Until now the English-language translators of Ulitskaya’s prose have been critically well regarded, but not necessarily well known.'
Muireann Maguire on Ludmila Ulitskaya's The Body of the Soul the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-b…
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Muireann Maguire: Dispatches from the highway
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Muireann Maguire on the return of Raufarhöfn's self-appointed sheriff
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‘There is a fissure. A crack. Which Tolstoy refuses to ignore – where irony gets in, the serious joke we acknowledge ruefully, with a wry smile.’
Craig Raine on how Tolstoy prepares the way for Anna Karenina’s suicide
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‘Here is a novel with a weight of cultural capital, then, that still provides inspiration and creative opportunities for a remarkably broad gamut of writers, artists and thinkers.’
Adam Watt on Proust
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'Mathews, on the group’s radar from the mid-1960s although he did not formally become a member until 1973, was undoubtedly best known as “the American Oulipian”.'
Dennis Duncan on a writer of immense wit and erudition
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‘As long as she devoted herself to the search for truth, to the cultivating of rigorous attention, her life had value.’
Karen Olsson on the complex identity of Simone Weil
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'Chain bookstores made certain genres more easily available to readers who would have had trouble finding them in a bookstore of the older variety, where booksellers acted as guides and tastemakers.'
Tadzio Koelb on the case against the publishing cong... the-tls.co.uk/politics-socie…
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'In my Narnia-like dream, I called it cremeschnitte as I gobbled it up; but once awake I realized I’d got the name wrong.'
Irina Dumitrescu (@irinibus) on the cultural resonances of cake
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Muireann retweeted
9 Dec 2024
It's officially Christmas at the Cambridge University Library!
A big thank you to the UL's facilities team for decorating this year's splendid tree🎄
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9 Dec 2024
📢The latest 'Slavonic and East European Review', edited by @UCLSSEES, is out!
👉 mhra.org.uk/publications/see……
Articles by Barry P. Scherr, Anna Maslenova, Zoran Milutinović, Will Studdert, Adam Kelly & Book Reviews.
Access via @ProjectMUSE 👉muse.jhu.edu/issue/53790
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9 Dec 2024
My latest article on the Anglo-Russian Literary Society and their translations of Russian poetry (and beyond!) is out 🥳
9 Dec 2024
📢The latest 'Slavonic and East European Review', edited by @UCLSSEES, is out!
👉 mhra.org.uk/publications/see……
Articles by Barry P. Scherr, Anna Maslenova, Zoran Milutinović, Will Studdert, Adam Kelly & Book Reviews.
Access via @ProjectMUSE 👉muse.jhu.edu/issue/53790
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'No novel since Mikhail Bulgakov’s The White Guard (1925) has brought revolutionary Kyiv so vividly to life.'
Muireann Maguire on the risky politics of eastern European crime fiction the-tls.co.uk/articles/death…
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