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Sebald’s Vision (Book acquired 10.06.2015)
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I can barely keep up with these “book acquired” posts this fall. I was actually reading Sebald last night—his essay on Rousseau in A Place in the Country. “How difficult it is in general to bring the machinery of thought to a standstill“—yes, yes, of...
Cover Design in Dangerous Times: An Interview with Peter Mendelsund
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THOUGH PETER MENDELSUND is a self-described “recovering classical pianist,” he’s better known as the man behind the covers of mega-bestsellers like Emma Cline’s The Girls and Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy, as well as reissues of classic titles like...
"I am resisting the temptation to read Sebald’s books all the way through, pausing only to eat,..."
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“I am resisting the temptation to read Sebald’s books all the way through, pausing only to eat, sleep, and visit the toilet.” - Tom Mitchell, “A Sense of Levitation: On Reading W.G. Sebald”
Q&A with Oliver Mol
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For the month of November, we are running our annual open call out for EWF 2016 (which you can find out more about here). We talked to some of this year’s amazing participants about their experience, which writers they are excited about at the moment...
Current exhibitions
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Moyra Davey, L’Image fantôme (detail), 2012. Twelve photographs, C-prints, postage, tape, ink, 45.8 x 30.3 cm each. Production Mudam Luxembourg. Courtesy the artist and Murray Guy, New York. Photo: Rémy Villaggi. Current...

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Mirror Nation

Don Mee Choi’s newest book of poetry Mirror Nation opens on a bridge in Potsdam, just outside Berlin. The last spy swap between East and West Berlin is taking place on the Bridge of Spies, and Choi is watching her father, a photojournalist, move around...
Sebald & Latin American Literature

“The list of Anglophone writers who bear a real or critically imposed debt to the German W. G. Sebald feels endless and has been repeated to the point of tedium.” More than two decades after Sebald’s death, reviewers, literary critics, and bloggers ...
W.G. Sebald in Context Part II

This is the second of four posts on W.G. Sebald in Context, which came out last September. It contains thirty-eight essays on Sebald by specialists from across Europe, Great Britain, the Middle East, and the United States. The volume was edited by Uwe...
“So much to regret”: Gabriel Josipovici’s “The Cemetery at Barnes”

“Friends who had known him in the old days would comment on the uncanny resemblance between his two wives.” Cracking open Gabriel Josipovici’s novel The Cemetery in Barnes (Carcanet, 2018), we are immediately ushered into a world of ambiguity, confusion...
W.G. Sebald in Context Part I

W.G. Sebald in Context came out last September with thirty-eight essays on the writer by thirty-eight different authors (including myself). The writers are a who’s who of Sebald specialists from across Europe, Great Britain, the Middle East, and the...

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