Fair Jane Commane Our first Language Justice column

Our first Language Justice column is by historian and food writer NA Mansour

Hers was a life where survival itself

Can we broaden our “frameworks of belonging” and replace our narrow group and species-centered morals with an ethics of interspecies compassion

It is a book that should not be left unsupervised or with the cover left open while you sleep

it takes a while to appreciate fully the quiet brilliance of this brief masterpiece

Fair Jane Commane Our first Language Justice columnFair: The Life Art of Translation, is a satirical, refreshing and brilliantly playful book about learning the art of translation, being a bookworker in the publishing industry, growing up, family, and class. Loosely set in an imagined book fair art fair fun fair, in which every stall or ride imitates a real world scenario or dilemma which must be observed and negotiated, the book moves between personal memories and larger questions about the role of