A postwar German novelist’s complicated legacy.
Satantango will devour you, you and everything you know.
An estimated 500 lives have been saved since March in a peace process launched by imprisoned Salvadoran gang members.
Geoffrey Brock’s anthology of twentieth-century Italian poetry offers the risk of a counter-eloquence.
Adrienne Rich, a major figure in the recent history of American poetry and a frequent contributor to The Nation, died on March 27.
Angela Davis’s student years in France were an alchemy of discipline and distraction.
The great Polish poet disclaimed grand political schemes in favor of irony, wit, skepticism and the individual.


