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At Risk
Jeffrey Sachs details his plan to end extreme poverty throughout the world in 20 years. Then, as part of our Summer Reading Series, translator Gregory Rabassa (who translated Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude) looks at the work of the 19th Century Brazilian writer Machado de Assis. Next, Stella Rimington, the former head of Britain’s MI5 Security Service, tells us about writing her first novel, the spy thriller At Risk. Finally, Simon Singh explores the origin of the universe in his latest work: Big Bang.
Economic Possibilities
Economist Jeffrey Sachs draws on 25 years worth of work to outline a plan for battling extreme poverty throughout the world: The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time.
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Music:
Soundtrack to Cobb, music by Elliot Goldenthal: "Hart and Hunter" / "Cobb Dies"
Summer Reading Series: Machado de Assis
In this week’s edition of our Summer Reading Series on underappreciated literature, Gregory Rabassa joins me for a look at the author Machado de Assis. Born in 1839 in Rio de Janiero, he’s widely considered to be the father of Brazilian literature. Mr. Rabassa, who is probably best-known for his translations of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude and Julio Cortazar’s Hopscotch, claims that it wasn’t until he worked on two of Machado de Assis’s novels that he felt “fulfillment as a translator.”
» Summer Reading Series
Events:
Gregory Rabassa will talk and read from his memoir, If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents, on:
Wednesday, July 13th at 6pm
Consulate General of Brazil
1185 Avenue of the Americas (between 46th and 47th Streets)
21st Floor
Music:
Soundtrack to Hanging Up, music by David Hirschfelder: “Conference Call”
True Spies
We’ll find out how Stella Rimington, the former head of Britain’s MI5 Security Service, uses her years of intelligence work to lend credence to her first novel, the spy thriller At Risk.
Music:
Soundtrack to The General's Daughter, music by Carter Burwell: "Exercise in Darkness" / "West Point"
Start at the Very Beginning
Simon Singh investigates the beginning of the universe: Big Bang.
Music:
Soundtrack to Naqoyqatsi: Life as War, music by Philip Glass: "Primacy of Number" / "Massman"
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