The Journal
Essays, Criticism & Craft
Perspectives on literature, aesthetics, translation, and the worlds that books open up.
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Against Interpretation
Against Interpretation SUSAN SONTAG The earliest experience of art must have been that it was incantatory,magical; art was...
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Modern Fiction
Modern Fiction VIRGINIA WOOLF In making any survey, even the freest and loosest, of modern fiction, it is difficult not to ta...
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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction WALTER BENJAMIN PREFACE When Marx undertook his critique of the capi...
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On Authorship
On Authorship ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for thesubject's sake, an...
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On Translation: The Art of Crossing Borders
Every act of translation is a negotiation — between fidelity and freedom, between the world the original text inhabits and the ...
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