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...laudable goal, given that the land of the Dichter und Denker (poets and thinkers) still translates twice as many books a year into German as it does from German into other languages. For those who don't know enough German to read the downloadable sample texts, litrix.de also offers specimen translations in English and Arabic; next year, the third language will switch to Chinese...
...seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder (poets and thinkers) still translates twice as many books a year into German as it does from German into other languages. For those who don't know enough German to read the downloadable sample texts, litrix.de also offers specimen translations in English and Arabic; next year, the third language will switch to Chinese. If your interest is piqued by one of the 30 new titles recommended by an expert jury of German literary critics each year, you can use an e-mail contact form to order it direct from...
Cunningham's new novel promises to do for the poet Walt Whitman what The Hours did for Woolf. Specimen Days is due out in June, and if anything, Cunningham has only got more audacious and more, well, cunning in the past six years. Like The Hours, Specimen Days is a fugue in three parts: it consists of three stories, each set in a different historical period--the Industrial Revolution, the 1920s and the far future. And each is told in a different style: ghost story, hard-boiled mystery and science fiction. You read that right. The third section will...
...anybody can keep all these balls in the air, it's Cunningham, and fortunately he will have some help. The ringmaster of this cosmic, triply three-ringed circus is Whitman himself (Specimen Days & Collect was the title Whitman gave to a collection of his journal entries). Tom Cruise, call your agent. --By Lev Grossman
...jaws of a largish animal, one that perished some 24 million years ago. But what kind of animal? The others gather around, including Archer, who's one of Australia's best at classifying - all but instantly - what would look to most people like generic bone. "The finest specimen of a marsupial lion jaw that's ever been found," he declares. It seems to have belonged, he explains later, to a previously unknown, intermediate species of this most ferocious marsupial - a link between the cat-sized Priscileo and the leopard-sized Wakaleo - whose lineage coexisted with Aborigines before dying...