MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Translating fiction: a moral case for AI?
ANDY MIAH advocates the use of AI to assist people by expanding access to global literature and culture
FOREVER BEYOND AI? Garcia Marquez mural in Aracataca, Columbia: “Wherever I am in the world I am Latin American, but I always feel nostalgia for my homeland, Aracataca; and when I come back I find - in between nostalgia and reality - the raw material of my work.”
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New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
NEWS that Dutch publishing house Veen Bosch & Keuning (VBK) has confirmed plans to experiment using AI to translate fiction has stirred up a thought-provoking debate.
Some believe it marks the beginning of the end for human translators, while others see this as the opening up of a new world of possibilities to bring more literature to even more people. These arguments are becoming increasingly vocal as the advance of AI accelerates at an ever-increasing rate.
Fiction translation, with its intricate language, emotional undertones and nuances, has traditionally been the domain of skilled human translators.
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