How Thrillers Can Renew Your Sense of Mission

Award-winning translator Julie Rose talks about thrillers and translatingThe Greenland Breachby Bernard Besson, which comes out in print next week. Julie is world renowned for her translations of major French thinkers, and especially for her acclaimed translation of Victor Hugo’sLes Misérables,which she considers to be one of the finest detective novels written.

On thrillers

I love mysteries and thrillers, but they have to be really well written. And I couldn’t put down The Greenland Breach. It...