Lost and Found in Translation

Recs & Revs 16

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Since this is an entry in the Recs & Revs series, “Recs” standing for “Recommendations,” I’ll take the opportunity to make an unexpected recommendation: a new, monthly two-part series here on planet Vitruvius.

The first part of this new series will be a free post, every four weeks, on Thursdays, titled “A Reader’s Review.” In this monthly review, I will offer summary description, brief comment, and relevant quotation from the best periodical reading I have done over the previous four weeks, including on Substack. I do a lot of it, periodicals of all kinds, literary, philosophical, historical, and pop-cultural – I could go on. For those of my readers who are not yet regular Substack readers but who read only me – and I know that you are out there, not yet Substack habitués – you have no idea the wealth of creative writing, of all kinds, of creative reading and creative responsiveness to the world in writing that the advent of Substack has made available to the reading pu…