The little white attic

1/ A Shakespeare fan never runs out of things to read.  I’ve been enjoying If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation ...

Hồi trước, tôi đã gom lại một mớ bài thơ tục của Hồ Xuân Hương. Nhưng Hồ Xuân Hương tất nhiên đâu chỉ viết thơ tục. Giờ gom lại một số bài v...

The first thing I’m gonna say is that I don’t particularly like reading poetry in translation (look, I don’t even read much poetry in the or...

I’ve never been much of a poetry person. I thought Shakespeare would be my gateway into poetry, but no. Or rather, I do like dramatic and ep...

1/ Judges and Ruth precede the Books of Samuel—I’ve been reading the Bible in the wrong order, I know, but then I don’t think Christians rea...

1/ Not only did I not grow up in a (culturally) Christian country, I grew up in Vietnam, a communist and thus anti-religious country—I only ...

1/ Published in 1594 (apparently written during a plague), The Rape of Lucrece was around the same time as Henry VI Part 1 (if we assume, a...

A list of the 10 literary works I think about, or revisit, most often:  The Iliad  The Odyssey  King Lear  Othello  Shakespeare’s Sonnets  D...

Under my last blog post, I got a comment from Thomas Parker asking how I selected translations, so let’s jot down some thoughts.  1/ Anyone ...