🎭 Culture May 13, 2026 · Bela Shayevich

Deeply I Groaned

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[Anonymous] sent me several questions about translation. She worried that they were somehow “too remedial,” but they were actually something worse: ancient, unanswerable debates. Take this one: “How much ‘editing’ of an author when translating is considered permissible? What is the outer limit of acceptable on that score?”

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