Public role of writers and intellectuals / GEN-BOOKs in the translatability of law / Simultaneous interpretation / Touch of translation / Languages of cinema / Translating into English / Tracking the "native informant" / Levinas, translation, and ethics / Comparative literature / Translation as community / Translation with no original / Local contingencies / Nationum Origo / Metrical translation / Translating history / German academic exiles in Istanbul / Delillo in Greece eluding the name / Translating grief / Synthetic vision / National literature in transnational times / Postcolonial Latin America and the magic realist imperative / Death in translation