Unprejudiced: A Jane Austen classic reset in the Galilee

January 27, 2009– Nextbook
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” So begins Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Though rife with Victorian frills, the book has aged remarkably well in the 200 years since it was published, and has been [...]

Lost in Adaptation

The Jerusalem Post–March 19, 2008
A few years ago as Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko prepared to read a few English translations of his own verse in a crowded hall on an American university campus, he reminded listeners of the fragile task of rendering poetry from one language to another. He compared the finished product to a [...]