The Translator's Art: Reflections on Salad Anniversary and Other Translations [meeting announcement, Kansai]

Speaker: Juliet Winters Carpenter, literary translator

Tour of the National Diet Library [announcement]

Computers Don't Bite (Much): Two SWET Workshops in November [announcement]

Kansai Members Organize [meeting report]

Summer Beer Party [report]

Picnic [report]

Who Was That Masked Man? (MC) [errors/oddities]

Credit Where It's Due [contributors to this issue]

Over Their Shoulders [translation comparisons: architecture]

Translators: Laurie Berman, John Lamb, Lynne Riggs

Just the Phax, Ma'am (FMU) [suggested spelling change to match phone]

Members' Choice: Brief Book Reviews

Love in the Time of Cholera (CY)

Webster's Dictionary of English Usage (JW)

Arslan (DJ)

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (FMU)

Speaking Out Fighting Back (JY)

The Alphabet Effect (GU)

Ender's Game; Speaker for the Dead (MG)

A Common Room: Essays 1954-1987 (JV)

The Soong Dynasty (KM)

Ransom (BS)

The Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed (JS)

Information Anxiety (BH)

Dispatches (GR)

Talking Straight (FJH)

At Risk (SS)

Opera and Ideas: From Mozart to Strauss (DT)

Womansword (ALB)

Stark (GH)

A Weaver's Garden (GD)

Language, Gender, and Professional Writing: Theoretical Approaches and Guidelines for Nonsexist Usage (FB)

The Power Game (AG)

I Know Some of Us Work Cheap, but... (BH) [errors/oddities]

English as a First Language (JM) [difficulties of maintaining and improving native English while in Japan]

Take a Seat (MS) [considerations in choosing ergonomic chairs]

A Look at What's Available

Ten Commandments of Phototypesetting [humorous advice by famous typesetter Hermann Zapf]

Styles of the Times [many "proper" word choices]

Excerpt from 1881 style manual The Verbalist, by Alfred Ayres