Metaphor

  • Erasmus’ Treasury

    October 31, 2017 Willis Goth Regier
    Statue of Erasmus near the Collegium Trilingue in Louvain / Photo by Nick Thompson Desiderius Erasmus (1466?–1536) made big books from little things. A literary lapidary, he compiled proverbs, anecdo…
  • Kathleen Heil

    The Great Pongoni

    July 22, 2014 Kathleen Heil
    Kathleen Heil for Patricio Pron  I don’t know when, exactly, I began to equate literary translation with the institution of marriage. But at some point I started to think t…