Reflections January 2021
The ordinary ennobled
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On Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Topic: “German Literature”
Books May 2019
Kafka’s Kafkaesque trial
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Dec 19, 2018
The man who made Romanticism
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On the composer, writer, and artist E. T. A. Hoffmann.
Features November 2018
How to read Kafka: part II
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The second in a two-part series on the writer who transformed our view of modern rationalism.
Features April 2018
Schiller’s bell
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On Friedrich Schiller’s “Das Lied von der Glocke.”
Features September 2017
Getting to grips with Goethe
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Reconsidering the literary relevance of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Notebook February 2017
Kafka, tuberculosis & “Magic Mountain”
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On the mania shared between the Bohemian writer and the German novel.
Reconsiderations January 2007
Learning to read
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A reflection on the early joys of the written word.
Features March 1999
Thomas Mann in English
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On the difficulties of translation.
Features March 1993
From the mattress grave: three late poems by Heinrich Heine
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Translated with an introduction by Martin Greenberg.