A new Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary: the Everest of translation

'By sticking to period language in his new translation, Adam Thorpe hoped to make Flaubert's masterpiece searingly radical again' (Guardian)

Roddy Doyle's Gogol

How to bring a giant of Russian literature to the Irish stage: start with the lads

Roddy Doyle on translating The Government Inspector

John Murray, of TCD's Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, responds in a letter to the Irish Times