The first volume in the series is by one of the most renowned contemporary translators into English. He discusses his recent experience of translating Tolstoy’s War and Peace, and offers alongside his illuminating essay a wonderful rendition of Pushkin’s long poem The Tale of the Preacher and His Man Bumpkin. The poem is printed in Russian and English and is accompanied by drawings by Pushkin himself.

Translating Music (Volume 1) (Cahiers)

Literature & Fiction

Pevear, Richard

World Literature

Sylph Editions

Nine short pieces by Muriel Spark: notes and reflections, dreams, diary entries, stories, a translation, and even a photograph she took in 1988. Assembled by Dan Gunn and Penelope Jardine, this cahier is not only a timely reminder of Spark's broad range of interests, but also of her wit, humour and literary sensitivity.

Walking on Air (Volume 2) (Cahiers)

SPARK, MURIEL

The opera Wagner Dream, by composer Jonathan Harvey, premiered  in 2007. In this cahier, Harvey discusses with his librettist  Jean-Claude Carrière the ideas underlying the opera and, in a detailed  essay about the undecidability of music, reveals the opera’s Buddhist  leitmotifs. With images from the opera and explanatory marginalia, this  cahier offers a clear insight into the work of one of the foremost  contemporary composers of electro-acoustic music.

Circles of Silence (Cahiers)

Harvey, Jonathan

CARRIERE,JEAN-CLAUDE

Literary

In between two new and previously unpublished poems, Alan Jenkins offers his refreshing translation of Rimbauds’ masterpiece: 'Le Bateau ivre'. With images by Rimbaud, Verlaine, and Bill Pownall (whose work was a source of inspiration for the poems here), this cahier sails down several rivers, placid and turbulent, and finds there more than one drunken boat.

Drunken Boats (Cahiers)

Jenkins, Alan

Poetry

Following her acclaimed translation of Swann’s Way, Lydia Davis offers a partial alphabet of Proust translation problems – and their solutions. She muses on the near-impossibility of summarizing works by Maurice Blanchot, and ends with a group of short narratives that explore the space between dream and waking reality. This cahier is a wondrous adventure into the perils and delights of translating, of reading–and of dreaming.

Proust, Blanchot and a Woman in Red (Volume 5) (Cahiers)

Davis, Lydia

Isabella Ducrot is a Roman textile artist  and painter, who in this cahier presents reflections on the nature of  textile and weaving which arise both from her major textile collection  and from her close reading of mythology and art history. Her meditations  are illustrated by her own art and are introduced by a  specially-written poem by the celebrated Italian poet Patrizia Cavalli.

Text on Textile (Volume 6) (Cahiers)

Arts & Photography

Ducrot, Isabella

History & Criticism

Four excerpts from Rachel Shihor’s novella Yankinton have been selected, and translated from the Hebrew for this cahier. These poignant and humorous tales are as much about the act of recollection as they are about the remembered Tel Aviv of the 1940s. In a playful and yet muted style, Shihor tells of the everyday life of a child beginning to grasp her surroundings. Six works by the painter David Hendler further explore the city.

Days Bygone (Volume 7) (Cahiers)

Shihor, Rachel

This cahier presents new work by the celebrated Irish poet Paul Muldoon. After a preface in which the poet explains what for him is the importance of translating, there follow four original works: ‘The Windshield’, ‘Balls’ (a five-sonnet sequence), ‘Quail’, and the title series of poems, ‘When the Pie Was Opened’. Interspersed with these are the poet’s translations: from Latin, from Anglo-Saxon, from Medieval Welsh, from Greek, and from Irish. The cahier is completed by drawings and an etching by the Sicilian artist Lanfranco Quadrio.

When the Pie Was Opened (Volume 8) (Cahiers)

MULDOON, Paul

George Balanchine (1904-1983) is one of the past century's greatest choreographers, and (along with Lincoln Kirstein) the man most responsible for creating ballet culture in America, in his roles as founder of the School of American Ballet and cofounder and balletmaster of the New York City Ballet. In a career spanning more than six decades and three continents, and with more than 400 dance works to his name, Balanchine towers over the field with his repertory of masterpieces such as Apollo, Serenade, The Four Temperaments, Agon, Jewels, his work in film, musical and opera, and also with the legacy of his teaching. In Balanchine Then and Now, leading dancers, choreographers, company directors, critics and academics assess Balanchine's multi-faceted legacy and his relevance to dance today, through essays, reminiscences and interviews. These contributors include Richard Alston, Toni D'Amelio, Dominique Delouche, Nanette Glushak, Stephanie Jordan, Anna Kisselgoff, Giannandrea Poesio, Francia Russell, Tim Scholl, Suki Schorer, Violette Verdy and Robert Wilson, each of whom adds a new angle to how we see Balanchine today. Balanchine Then and Now is illustrated with numerous previously unpublished and very beautifully reproduced images of the master at work, and of his dances. It ranks as one of the essential books on ballet.

Balanchine Then and Now (The Arts Arena Publication Series)

WILSON, Robert

Alston, Richard

Scholl, Tim

Verdy, Violette

Schorer, Suki

Jordan, Stephanie

D'Amelio, Toni

Delouche, Dominique

Franceschi, Antonia

Glushak, Nanette

Kisselgoff, Anna

Poesio, Giannandrea

Russell, Francia

Humor & Entertainment

Ten Poems from Hafez

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