Michael Hofmann nicely captures our age of truthiness and alternate facts and multiple perspectives, the hollowness of everything from the news-cycle to pop-up restaurants, all of the distractions driven by money and advertising.
Michael Hofmann
Book Review: “To the Back of Beyond” — Extreme Ambiguity
Evidently, plain-spoken language plus doubt and apprehension equate to novels that, once opened, are very hard to put down.
Book Review: “My Marriage” — An Extraordinary Rediscovery
Despite the pain of inhabiting Alexander Herzog’s disintegrating world, I absolutely could not put My Marriage aside.
Fuse Book Review: “Blood Brothers” — Down-and-Out in Germany’s Zero Hour
Anyone interested in understanding Europe in the 20th century, or in the fascinating metropolis that is Berlin, or in a riveting depiction of down-and-out youth who refuse to surrender to the system–will want to pick up Blood Brothers.
From the Editor’s Desk: Lessons from Bertolt Brecht — and Highlights of the Week
Today’s increasingly corporate-approved theater stays within safe, civic-minded boundaries.
Poetry Review: The Unexpected Compassion of German Poet Gottfried Benn
A collection of poems and essays by the admired German poet Gottfried Benn, who, because of his brief association with Nazism, has been absent from our mainstream, non-specialized, English-language view of modern German poetry.