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FictionApril 12, 2007
Humboldt’s Gift
The comic novel Measuring the World re-imagines the lives of two of the nineteenth century’s greatest scientists.
Mark M. Anderson
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PoetryJune 15, 2006
The Poet and the Muse
A new collection of letters between Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salome reveals an intimate portrait of a poet and his muse.
Mark M. Anderson
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Genocide and Ethnic CleansingSeptember 29, 2005
Crime and Punishment
A recent surge of novels and memoirs reveals for the first time the ways in which Germans suffered from Allied “total war” strategy during World War II.
Mark M. Anderson
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FictionSeptember 11, 2003
Bleak Haus
Though still relatively unknown in the English-speaking world, the Austrian novelist and playwright Thomas Bernhard, who died in 1989 at the age of 57, is widely recognized as one of the foremo
Mark M. Anderson
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