Nov 27, 2009

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The Fall of the Berlin Wall:
Germany Celebrates its Americanization

Translator’s Introduction: The following interview has been twice “betrayed.” It originally appear in Vienna’s zur Zeit, no. 46 (2009). It was then translated into French by Robert Steuckers and is here translated from his French into my English. When such a piece passes through three languages, something, of course, is lost. The extraordinary quality of the...

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Jul 11, 2009

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Knut Hamsun

Editor’s Note: The following sketch of Knut Hamsun’s life and work should be supplemented by Mark Deavin’s discussion here of Hamsun’s greatest book, Growth of The Soil, for which he won the Nobel prize for literature. See also Robert Ferguson’s biography Enigma: The Life of Knut Hamsun. Also noteworthy is Knut Hamsun Remembers America: Essays and...

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May 26, 2009

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A Desert Called Peace

After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied OccupationGiles MacDonoghNew York: Basic Books, 2007If ever the history of our times comes to be written by scholars free of national prejudices, the “crimes against humanity” committed by the victors of the Second World War of the twentieth century A.D., will appear as equal to those committed by the Nazis. For an...

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