Joshua Sperling teaches film and literature at Oberlin College. His first book, A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger (Verso, 2018), has been translated into Korean, complex and simplified Chinese, and Turkish. He is currently at work on a book of essays on the cinema.
Joshua Sperling
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How to Read like a Translator
To work as a translator is to encounter a text with an active desire in mind, a desire that both constitutes and modifies the way that text is experienced.
