Description
This issue features exclusively works in or about translation, engaging with over twenty-five languages across six continents.
Arriving at a time when the written word feels inadequate to capture the enormity of the climate crisis, the work in this issue will examine how languages are informed by the environments in which they evolved and how our understanding of nature is changed by the words we use to describe it. In this issue:
- Nastassja Martin explores the language that defines anthropology
- Sumana Roy revisits the work of Jagadish Chandra Bose, a turn-of-the-century botanist and alchemist who attempted to speak with his plants
- Lydia Davis translates the tiny animal stories of A.L. Snijders
- Jessica J. Lee writes on the vocabulary of the weather
- Anne Carson tells the story of a monk and a mermaid in a pages-long epic poem
And much, much more!
