Der Spiegel recently described the great German writers Thomas and Heinrich Mann and their progeny thus: “egocentric and self-deprecating, half-bound to one another, sexually irregular, the representatives of a different Germany. . . . [Today] Thomas Mann's family seems astonishingly modern." No…
The portmanteau novel—the work of fiction that follows the interlocking lives of a group of characters, once practiced by writers from John Galsworthy to Scholem Asch—has all but disappeared. But the republication of Olivia Manning’s Fortunes of War in two luxurious volumes serves as a welcome…
Berlin
The Disinherited
Forgotten Continent
El Anti-Americanismo Español
Aspecter is haunting Latin America these days -- a book that frontally attacks all of the sociological and economic foolishness that, until recently, kept the region at a developmental dead-end.
Aspecter is haunting Latin America these days -- a book that frontally attacks all of the sociological and economic foolishness that, until recently, kept the region at a developmental dead-end.
ON NOVEMBER 30, PERUVIAN national police squadrons converged on a villa in the suburbs of Lima after they were told it might be a safe house for the Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amaru -- one of the two terrorist organizations that have plagued the country for the past dozen years. The occupants…