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COVER STORY
Translation
Kurt Andersen and America's most renowned translator,
Gregory Rabassa, look at translation beyond literature, across art forms,
and between cultures.
 Yiddish
To English
Kadya Molodowsky was one of the great Yiddish poets
of the 20th century. Her translator, poet and professor Kathryn Hellerstein,
talks about the challenges and pleasures of bringing Molodowsky's poems
to a new audience.
 Go
to Hellerstein's website
Go
to New Republic's review of "Paper Bridges"
Books
To Movies
Kurt
talks with screenwriter Stephen Schiff about the alchemy of adapting novels
for the movies.
Go
to E!'s top ten Book-to-Movie translations
 Hop-Fu
From the Bronx to Shanghai, Hip-hop continues to jump
the boundaries of language and politics. Produced by Michael Jones. Photo
by C. Navarro.
Go
to Mountain Brothers site
Go
to a New York Times article about Chinese Hip-Hop
Go
to Far Eastern Economic Review article - "Hip Hop Generation"
PROFILE
 Harry
Partch
The strange sounds
and rousing tunes of the non-conformist American composer and musical
inventor who would have turned 100 this month. Produced by Allison Lirish Dean.
Go
to WNYC's Partch Centenary page
(with slide show of Partch's instruments)
Go
to Harry Partch foundation website
Go
to the Harry Partch archive
Go
to the Harry Partch institute at Montclair, NJ
SPECIAL GUEST
 Gregory
Rabassa
Gregory Rabassa is a professor at Queens College and
among the best American translators working today. He has translated more
than 30 novels from Spanish and Portuguese into English -- including works
by Mario Vargas Llosa, Octavio Paz, Jorge Amado, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez,
who has said that Rabassa's English translation of One Hundred Years of
Solitude was better than the original Spanish. Last month the PEN American
Center gave him a career achievement award for his contributions to the
appreciation of Hispanic literature.
Go
to a Feed magazine interview of Rabassa
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Design
For the Real World
Critic Philip Nobel talks about his recent initiation
into the shockingly complex world of diaper design.
Design
High
The Charter High School for Architecture and
Design in Philadelphia trains its students to become designers and product
creators instead of consumers. Produced by Peter Clowney.
Go
to the school's website
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