Damian Searls’s just-published translations of Thomas Mann’s "New Selected Stories," fleet but sure-footed, come as a relief, a long-overdue exhalation.
Françoise Gilot had a career that spanned eight decades and her work now fetches over $1m. Yet when this astonishing women died last week, the headlines were more interested in her former lover
His books, which examined the plight of eastern Turkey and the vanity of the Istanbul bourgeoise, take on new meaning after the February 6 earthquakes.