On Being and Timelessness
by Aviya Kushnerin 📚 Literature
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On Being and Timelessness
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On Being and Timelessness is about literature, translation, and ideas. Topics include how the ancient and the present connect; Jewish poetry and prose; why translation matters; and people who are worth a closer look.
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About Aviya Kushner
I am the author of WOLF LAMB BOMB (Orison Books) and THE GRAMMAR OF GOD (Spiegel & Grau/ Penguin Random House), & the translator of IT'S ME SPEAKING by Yudit Shahar (U. of Texas Press, forthcoming.) I write a column on language for The Forward.
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