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W.G. Sebald
March 31, 2025
Colin Dickey
W.G. Sebald and the Politics of Melancholy
The essay collection “Silent Catastrophes” explores how we might navigate the end of empire and the rise of authoritarianism.
August 19, 2021
MagazineRyu Spaeth
The Lost World of W.G. Sebald
How the cataclysms of the past loomed over Sebald’s life and haunted his fiction
October 18, 2018
Jeet Heer
Anthea Bell, celebrated translator of Asterix and W.G. Sebald, is dead at age 82.
February 10, 2011
Christopher Benfey
The Embroiderer

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