Theda BaraA neat article on Prague and Kafka
An interview with Susan Bernofsky on translating Robert Walser
A roundup of choice Walser links from the past few years
Another review of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's Memories of the Future
A new translation of Theodor Fontane's poem, 'The Tragedy of Afghanistan' (1859)
A review of Hannay's translation of Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript
Gladstone: the grandest of old men
Via Maitresse, the new translation of de Beauvoir's Second Sex has errors, hopefully to be corrected in time for the US release of this work
Will Self's Sebald Lecture
'Weavers, scholars, and writers, Sebald claims, tend “to suffer from melancholy and all the evils associated with it, [and] it is understandable given the nature of their work, which forced them to sit bent over, day after day, straining to keep their eye on the complex patterns they created.”'
The Mookse & the Gripes on Sebald's Rings of Saturn
'Love Across the Borders' by Gabriel Josipovici
Notes on Josipovici's Everything Passes by Paul Griffiths, Mr. Waggish, Stephen Mitchelmore, Richard Crary, and Dan Visel.
Aussie radio is on to Albert Camus, the James Dean of philosophy
More antipodean radio -- this time on David Eagleman, neuroscientist & novelist
Bellow-ing away at depression
A brief review of Breon Mitchell's new translation of The Tin Drum
Herta Müller's folk (with a tantalizing remark in the 4th paragraph about the roots of the Dracula story)
A three-week workshop on writing theology with Marilynn Robinson in Princeton (ht F&T)
Issa rocks out with a jukebox full of lit rock (ht Books, Inq.)
Bentham's mummy, Ginsberg and Kafka in one post
'There are more things in heaven and earth than ...,' -- okay, now let's look at some philosophers on Shakespeare. Here's a review (via Books, Inq.) of Colin McGinn's book on the bard, and McGinn's review of a book on Iago, and Martha Nussbaum's review from last year of McGinn's book along with Nuttall's and Zamir's
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