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Omega Minor has now finally arrived in the U.S. and Britain, the first of Verhaeghen's three novels to be translated into English. Critics are comparing him to such German masters as Günter Grass and W. G. Sebald, as well as to science-minded American novelists like Thomas Pynchon and Richard Powers. Indeed, Powers - who has lived in Holland - helped find a U.S. publisher for the book, calling it "amazing" and praising Verhaeghen for taking on "the whole 20th century in a single novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Fusion: Omega Minor | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

...Saint-Exupéry and Byron are very different from Christopher Isherwood, whose stay in Berlin seems to have been motivated chiefly, as one person put it, by the ready supply of German boys. Weimar was the place to be in the early interwar years, and Isherwood was there, writing a gloriously camp version of the rise of Nazism...

Author: By Sahil K. Mahtani | Title: Wind, Sand, and Stars | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

...German professor Peter J. Burgard warned last spring that “we should not have a Harvard version of RateMyProfessor.com...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child and Alexandra Hiatt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Faculty To Revisit Course Evaluations | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

...German literature professor Judith L. Ryan, a member of the Faculty Council—the 18-member Faculty governing body that moved for the legislation to appear before the full Faculty—said that the proposal addresses some of the drawbacks of the existing evaluation system...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child and Alexandra Hiatt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Faculty To Revisit Course Evaluations | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

...Increasingly, those suitors are whispering sweet nothings in European accents. So far this year, European bigwigs including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and London Mayor Ken Livingstone have come calling, while French President Nicolas Sarkozy will be chief guest at India's Republic Day celebrations next January. On Nov. 30, E.C. President Jose Manuel Barroso and European Union President and Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates will visit New Delhi for the annual E.U.-India summit, a bilateral confab to discuss investment, scientific cooperation and efforts to combat climate change. The participants are expected to announce a joint solar energy project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Europe is Coming to India | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

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