Acclaimed literary translator of Spanish and Latin American greats who was hailed by Gabriel García Márquez as his ‘voice in English’ An obituary from The Times of London. Translators, wrote Edith Grossman in her book Why Translation Matters, are usually seen as “the humble, anonymous handmaidens-and-men” who toil in the shadows of the great writers, their…
Jorge Luis Borges was deeply inspired by the work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, whose prints of imaginary prisons and palaces captured the Argentinian author's imagination.
Henry Fudge resigned from his seat as the District 1 representative for the Limestone County Board of Education at the board meeting on Tuesday, June 27.
A report by Patricia Ortega-Miranda for the Smithsonian Magazine. In 1952, the Cuban-born artist Emilio Sanchez settled in New York City, where he lived a comfortable life dedicated to painting. In the winter, he made habitual getaways to locations with warmer temperatures, preferably islands in the Caribbean. Recording idiosyncratic architectural elements and the striking effects…