Thomas Mann in America
A review of Thomas Mann’s War: Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters, by Tobias Boes.
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The Refusenik Novelist
Elizabeth Powers reviews Hesse: The Wanderer and His Shadow, by Gunnar Decker, translated by Peter Lewis.
Word Games
Binet has brought together characters that will be familiar to any humanities students circa 1980 and tied them up in a Dan Brown–style caper.
The Critic’s Art
Film critics are an opinionated lot, and many have written books on individual filmmakers. A. O. Scott, however, a New York Times film critic since 2000, takes on the subject ...
Under the Sign of the Navel
Even before he left his native Czechoslovakia in 1975 and emigrated to France, there was always something French about Milan Kundera. Like the father of modern aphorists, the Duke de ...
Keats’s World
Without being truly subjective, John Keats is the most personal of poets. His poetry is concerned with questions and longings that seem to come from the depths of the individual ...
Victorian Creations
Two giants of the 19th-century English novel, William Makepeace Thackeray and Charles Dickens, were born within a year of each other, in 1811 and 1812, but only Dickens has been ...