Michael F. Moore is the chair of the PEN/Heim Translation Fund and an interpreter/translator from Italian. His most recent translations include Live Bait by Fabio Genovesi, Agostino by Alberto Moravia, and The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi. He is currently working on a new translation of the nineteenth-century classic The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni.
Michael F. Moore
Articles by Michael F. Moore
Tuesday April 6
Blood Brothers
Morris Rybeck lowered his eyes from the mute storm clouds in the west, inky with smothered thunderbolts. He leaned forward in the high-cantled saddle and wriggled his hips a couple of times, working the stiffness from his back and flexing blood down into his legs. He had pressed himself hard that day, allowing for only