This edition: Mark Polizzotti, Author/Translator; Publisher & Editor in Chief, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Original tape date: August 20, 2018. First aired: October 24, 2018.Why does Michelangelo’s sculpture of Moses depict him with horns? Why do we think the Garden of Eden’s forbidden fruit was an apple? The answers lie in failures of translation.
Renowned translator Mark Polizzotti of the Met Museum discusses those failures and much more in his latest book, Sympathy for the Traitor, a lucid and even humorous translation manifesto.
Guest List
Mark Polizzotti Author/Translator; Publisher & Editor in Chief, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Alice Austen and the Gilded Age
- Friday, April 24 - 8:00am
- Saturday, April 25 - 8:00am
- Sunday, April 26 - 8:00am
- Kenneth Davis
- Friday, May 1 - 8:00am
- Saturday, May 2 - 8:00am
- Sunday, May 3 - 8:00am
- Stan Fischler
- Friday, May 8 - 8:00am
- Saturday, May 9 - 8:00am
- Sunday, May 10 - 8:00am
- Stan Fischler, part two
- Friday, May 15 - 8:00am
- Saturday, May 16 - 8:00am
- Sunday, May 17 - 8:00am
- Sam Roberts
- Friday, April 17 - 8:00am
- Saturday, April 18 - 8:00am
- Sunday, April 19 - 8:00am
- Ira Berkow, part two
- Friday, April 10 - 8:00am
- Saturday, April 11 - 8:00am
- Sunday, April 12 - 8:00am
- Ira Berkow
- Friday, April 3 - 8:00am
- Saturday, April 4 - 8:00am
- Sunday, April 5 - 8:00am
- Sandra Peddie
- Friday, March 27 - 8:00am
- Saturday, March 28 - 8:00am
- Sunday, March 29 - 8:00am
- T.J. English
- Friday, March 20 - 8:00am
- Saturday, March 21 - 8:00am
- Sunday, March 22 - 8:00am
