NY Times Book Review: Pevear

We’ve got another illustration in the New York Times Book Review this week, this time accompanying a review of Richard Pevear’s account of his and his wife Larissa Volokhonsky’s adventures in preparing a new English language translation of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Our graphic suggests, as Pevear himself does, that translation is at best inexact, and always more of an art than a science. Read the whole article here.