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Oct 21, 2026 51 min

Emily Wilson

from Books That Made Me

Translator extraordinaire Emily Wilson goes deep on everything from proto-YA novels to John Milton. Her latest book is Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea. Support us on Patreon! Books That Made Emily Wilson: Dogsbody, Diana Wynne Jones The Aspern Papers, Henry James Paradise Lost, John Milton Also discussed! Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin, Tranlsated by Vladimir Nabokov “Problems of Translation: Onegin in English,” Vladimir Nabokov “On Translating ‘Eugene Onegin,” Vladimir Nabokov Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov Middlemarch, George Eliot The Wings of the Dove, Henry James Tolstoy: A Biography, A.N. Wilson Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat, Bee Wilson Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton, Emily R. Wilson Areopagitica and Other Writings, John Milton The Aeneid, translated by Scott McGill and Susannah Wright Instagram, TikTok, Bluesky: @booksthatmadepod Let us know what you think! Email us at [email protected] Recorded at Moss, a new and inspired kind of members club where New Yorkers of all types gather in the shared pursuit of intelligent leisure and physical culture.

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