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\u201c3-D<\/small> Scans Reveal Gigantic Native American Cave Art in Alabama\u201d<\/a> Archaeologists have just announced the discovery in Alabama of North America\u2019s largest known cave drawings. Created by incising lines into the cave\u2019s limestone walls, the drawings, dated to the first millennium A.D.<\/small>, depict four human-like figures and a snake. The precise location of the site, known only as the \u201cNineteenth Unnamed Cave,\u201d has been kept secret from the public, though researchers have been studying the cave system it belongs to since 1979. The newly discovered drawings are so large, the archeologists have reported, \u201cthat the makers had to create the images without being able to see them in their entirety.\u201d While the meaning of these designs is unknown, some speculate the indigenous artists might have seen the cave as a portal to the underworld. A detailed description of the find, along with a number of photographs, can be found in the journal Antiquity<\/i><\/a>, currently open-access.<\/p>\n \u201cHow the Russian and Ukrainian Languages Intersect in Eugene Vodolazkin\u2019s \u2018Brisbane\u2019 \u201d<\/a> The Kyiv-born scholar of medieval Russian literature Eugene Vodolazkin first gained attention in the English-speaking world when his third novel, Laurus<\/i>, about the travels of a fifteenth-century \u201choly fool,\u201d was published in translation in 2015. This week in Literary Hub, Marian Schwartz, who worked on Vodolazkin\u2019s newest book, Brisbane<\/i>, discusses the nuances of translating a novel that switches frequently between Ukrainian and Russian. (The novel\u2019s main character, Gleb, much like the author himself, grew up speaking both languages.) While Tolstoy footnoted the French in War and Peace<\/i>, Vodolazkin in Brisbane<\/i> has left the Ukrainian untranslated, assuming his readers can understand both. Schwartz describes how she tackled this and other tricky elements of Vodolazkin\u2019s writing style, such as his use of song lyrics and palindromes, and reflects on her fifty-year career as a Russian translator that began during the Cold War.<\/p>\n From the podcast:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cMusic for a While #59: Playing on.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Jay Nordlinger,\u00a0<\/em>The New Criterion\u2019s music critic, talks music\u2014but, more important, plays music.<\/em><\/p>\n Dispatch:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cA fragrance of Boldini\u201d by David Platzer.<\/a> On \u201cBoldini: Pleasures and Days\u201d at Le Petit Palais, Paris.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Alabama cave art & translation.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2407,"featured_media":121447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","wds_primary_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[472],"tags":[1723,647,1170],"dispatch-city":[],"acf":{"participants":{"simple_value_formatted":"","value_formatted":null,"value":null,"field":{"ID":0,"key":"field_65fb0bff29d65","label":"Participants","name":"participants","aria-label":"","prefix":"acf","type":"user","value":null,"menu_order":0,"instructions":"","required":0,"id":"","class":"","conditional_logic":0,"parent":"group_651c53615a3f7","wrapper":{"width":"","class":"","id":""},"role":"","return_format":"object","multiple":1,"allow_null":0,"bidirectional":0,"bidirectional_target":[],"_name":"participants","_valid":1}},"featured_image_credits":{"simple_value_formatted":"A figure carved into the ceiling of \u201cNineteenth Unnamed Cave\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in Alabama, outlined digitally on the right. 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\nMegan Gannon, Smithsonian Magazine<\/i><\/p>\n
\nMarian Schwartz, Literary Hub<\/i><\/p>\n