Arts & Culture
How to read like a translator
Damion Searls.
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Eileen O’Grady
Harvard Staff Writer
March 18, 2025 6 min readDamion Searls ’92 talks process, sentence structure, and what makes a chair a chair
When someone asks Damion Searls how he “chooses” words for a translation, he likens it to asking a reader how they “choose” what Mr.