At Knopf and The New Yorker, Gottlieb was an editor of unexampled accomplishment someone who seemed to have read everything worth reading and to have published a fair amount of it, too.
In our discussion below, McCarter provides numerous insights into Ovid and articulates several key decisions that informed her translation of his poem. “I wanted to prove, mainly to myself, that it was possible to write a poetic translation, an accurate translation, and a feminist translation all in one,” McCarter says.
The drama Transatlantic and the documentary series The US And The Holocaust take very different approaches to reveal America’s mixed response to the rise of Nazi Germany.