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Mark Anderson

Mark M. Anderson, a professor of German at Columbia University, translated Thomas Bernhard's The Loser under the pseudonym Jack Dawson.

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  • Humboldt's Gift

    April 12, 2007

    The comic novel Measuring the World re-imagines the lives of two of the nineteenth century's greatest scientists.

2006

  • The Poet and the Muse

    June 14, 2006 Subscribe

    A new collection of letters between Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salome reveals an intimate portrait of a poet and his muse.

2005

  • Crime and Punishment

    September 29, 2005

    A recent surge of novels and memoirs reveals for the first time the ways in which Germans suffered from Allied "total war" strategy during World War II.

2003

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