I met Martin Ostwald in 1996, shortly after I became friends with his son David, whose son was in the same kindergarten class as mine. By then, Martin had retired from his position as a classics ...

W.G. Sebald’s premature death from a heart attack, in December 2001, at 57—months after the publication of his novel Austerlitz propelled him to the height of his literary fame—has left his readers ...

However, there was more to Sebald’s oeuvre than what he called his “prose fiction,” and over the last two decades, English-language readers have seen the posthumous publication of several nonfiction ...

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