Workers in Spain, Poland, and Germany strike against Amazon’s brutal labor practices on Prime Day
Workers at Amazon fulfillment centers across Europe—in Spain, Poland and Germany—went on strike this week, protesting the company’s abysmal pay, inhumane management practices, and refusal to enter into collective bargaining agreements… Read more »
Don Quixote gets scrambled into an e-book about the mafia after a Spanish court bans the original
An ingenious attempt at bypassing censorship in Spain has led a bookseller’s association to reconfigure passages from Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote for online consumption. For the Telegraph, James Badcock reports on the unusual case of journalist Nacho… Read more »
What’s going on in Spain? What does it mean for us? (As it was blogged before, so shall it be blogged again)
The year is winding down, and we’re officially on hiatus. But, seeing as how internets gonna internet, we’re using this time to look back on some of our favorite posts… Read more »
What’s going on in Spain? What does it mean for us?
Here we are, starting yet another month of 2017 with violence erupting all over the world. On October 1, the people of Catalonia were to vote on the autonomous community’s independence from Spain. The… Read more »
Jal te booty (“Go to work”) and other useful phrases in chipe calli, the language of the gypsies
One of the pleasures of editing is going down various wormholes, as occasioned by different books. For instance, while editing one book recently, I learned that benzine, otherwise known as petroleum ether,… Read more »
Exercises in translation, the Spanish edition
We saw last week week that writers (Ed Albee, we’re looking at you) have exacting standards when it comes to translation. Granted, you earn a bit of clout when you’re… Read more »