August 1985 Issue [Readings] The future of reading Download PDF Adjust Share by George Steiner, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 20th century Books and reading Literacy United States More from George Steiner Russia and Red China For the past six years the largest country in the world—with a quarter of the earth’s population—has been a blank space on the map of American foreign policy. For many… Destroyer of Words From an interview with the philosopher George Steiner that was conducted in 2014 by Laure Adler, a journalist. The interview appears in A Long Saturday, which will be published in… Lust in translation Adjust Share