“If This Be Magic” by Daniel Hahn – A superbly diverting book about language and creativity

Steven Poole at The Guardian: The great Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, who translated William Faulkner, André Gide, Franz Kafka and Virginia Woolf into Spanish, drew the line at Shakespeare. Speaking of the moment when Hamlet asks the ghost why it returns to haunt “the glimpses of the moon”, Bo.