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Featuring 19 conversations on the subject, Polly Barton’s Porn: An Oral History is a daring exploration of pornography in all its forms. Here, she tells Eli Cugini why we must all take a more open attitude to sex
Polly Barton’s “oral history” of porn shows the myopia of cultural criticism drawn from personal experience. We desperately need a new literature of sexuality.
Polly Barton's memoir Fifty Sounds documents the intimacy of the act of translation and the process of learning a new language.
Lots of authors will be introducing their books over February and March
In her recent book Fifty Sounds, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, Polly Barton recounts her experience as a learner of Japanese, teaching English as a foreign language at a small island school, and later becoming a literary translator. This is no “what I did on my summer holidays” book – although there are plenty of humorous mishaps along the way. Barton has clearly dedicated her life to working language like it is clay. Fifty Sounds demonstrates Barton’s belief that to understand another language – to really, truly, get it – she had to immerse herself within it, building up a ...