Author: Claire Levenson

Politics

Kamala Harris and the French Frying Pan

The French are elitist snobs, and so is anyone who speaks French or has an interest in French culture – that is one of […]

By Claire Levenson
| February 2, 2022

Book

Translating Trump: Mission Impossible?

With his incoherent, repetitive style, coarse expressions, and dubious syntax, the American president has made life difficult for French translators and journalists. In Trumpspeak, […]

By Claire Levenson
| November 4, 2020

Interview

Cécile David-Weill: “Authority Is Credibility Granted by Children”

In Parents Under the Influence, recently translated from French and published in the United States, the French-American mother of three tackles accepted ideas about […]

By Claire Levenson
| April 16, 2020

Author: Claire Levenson

Kamala Harris and the French Frying Pan

Translating Trump: Mission Impossible?

Cécile David-Weill: “Authority Is Credibility Granted by Children”

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