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Dædalus now online

In January 2021, Dædalus became an Open Access journal. The editors of Dædalus thank you for your patience while they work to digitize the back catalog. The current edition of the quarterly journal Dædalus is available online, and as you can see from the above quote from their “About” page they are working to make […]

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Wishing you a happy new year!

It has been a busy year, so I’ll take this opportunity to apologize for staying mostly silent. We have been incredibly fortunate and blessed this year in spite of everything that 2020 managed to throw at the world. What could be called my ‘workload’ multiplied this year with caretaking a friend’s property, but it has […]

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Yekaterina Vasilievna Korotkova-Grossman

Vasily Grossman, with mother and daughter Katya Picture sourceFrom Robert Chandler’s Facebook page earlier today: A few minutes ago I received the sad news of the death of Yekaterina Vasilievna Korotkova-Grossman, the daughter of Vasily Grossman. She was someone unusually sensitive, perceptive and witty. We got on well from our very first meeting and I […]

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Tim Wilkinson (1947 – 2020)

I was extremely sad to see a post from hlo.hu on the passing of Tim Wilkinson, “One of Hungarian literature’s most prominent translators, known best for his work with Imre Kertész and Miklós Szentkuthy.” I’ve read quite a few books translated by him and have posted on some of them. Wilkinson translated many academic books, […]