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Translation Necessary

The problem of translation has been analyzed, schematicized, theorized, and polemicized - but it has always been howled out in pain. In the now rarely printed 1611 Preface to the King James Version of the Bible, "The Translators to the Reader," an architectural translation elicits a less-than-hoped-

11.1.2006| Opinions, Volume 3, Issue 1 | Grace Tiao

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Glimpses of God at Tinker Creek

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. By Annie Dillard. Harper’s, 1974. We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence… “Seem like we’re just set down here,” a woman said to me recently, “and don’t nobody know why.” — Annie Dillar

04.1.2005| Books and Arts, Volume 2, Issue 1 | Grace Tiao

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