Damion Searls

Book Review: Writer Thomas Mann — Still August After All These Years?

March 27, 2023
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How does Thomas Mann’s grandiosity hold up today? A new selection of his short stories, freshly translated by veteran translator and fiction writer Damion Searls suggests an answer, though only partially.

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Book Interview: Damion Searls on “Amsterdam Stories”

May 17, 2012
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Written by a man who spent most of his life in a bourgeois harness, Amsterdam Stories focuses on the fleeting thrills of refusal, the chemical and philosphical rush that comes from floating free of responsibility.

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