Monumental Problems: Freedom and Unity Come to Berlin – Daniela Blei
On April 13, 2011, Bernd Neumann, Germany’s Minister of Culture and a member of Angela Merkel’s ruling center-right party, made an announcement. After
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Spectres of the Real Paul and the Prospect of Pauline Scholarship – By T.J. Lang
T.J. Lang on Benjamin L. White’s Remembering Paul The fashionable dictum among historians today is that biographies do not repristinate their subjects “as
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A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion
Over at LARB, Peter Birkenhead writes on Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited: Early in the pages of his memoir, Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov confesses that
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