Translating Hélène Cixous and Angst: Sophie Lewis, Beverley Bie Brahic and Kristen Vida Alfaro in conversation natural history

Translating Hélène Cixous and Angst: Sophie Lewis, Beverley Bie Brahic and Kristen Vida Alfaro in conversation natural historyWednesday 20th May 6. 30pm to 9pm In this event, translator Sophie Lewis joins poet and translator Beverley Bie Brahic to explore translating Hlne Cixous, the iconic French writer and theorist, and feminist poetics in translation. Chaired by Kristen Vida Alfaro, managing director of Silver Press and director of Tilted Axis Press, which specialises in translated literature, the conversation will move between languages, body and text, and the restless

Luminous and penetrating

and recounting an often poignant

Fernanda Melchor's masterful stories show how the violent and shocking aberrations that make the headlines are only the surface ruptures of a society on the brink of chaos

Sophie Calle and Mark Dion

The answer: everything

the government is determined to quash the Eritrean insurgency once and for all

and their efforts to shift the Victorian public’s opinion on homosexuality with the publication of their book

and was interested in psychoanalysis and mysticism

Packed with iconic images by acclaimed photographers

and of lives humbled by the implacable strength and beauty of the mountains

Tracy Chevalier

Viola Davis