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In addition to being bilingual, “she has a super sensitive ear for the texts she translates, and she strives to find the right English words and the right register for each book."
An argument to bring back liverwurst, the least popular sandwich option in New York
The qualifications of an author to write about his or her subject are rarely so well established in an opening line as Michael Hans Kater’s are in the first sentence of After the Nazis: The Story of Culture in West Germany: "On Tuesday, May 1, 1945, I was drying a small collection of Hitler stamps on the windowsill of my grandfather's house in a small village near Bremen in North Germany." Kater, a distinguished research professor emeritus of history at York University whose work has covered a wide range of German history, here finishes a trilogy of work concerning, respective...
Criticism is more in vogue than appreciation. Nearly 4,000 years ago, Socrates advised his disciples to ignore people's opinions. Humans often behave condescendingly. So, they cannot praise wholeheartedly. We're born with this innate trait of speaking negatively even if, in the heart of hearts, we know that our criticism is wrong, unjustified and unfair.
When I was a boy and then a young man, I found it inconceivable how a nation like Germany could descend into and embrace fascism. Didn’t Germany’s long history argue against that? Germany had long been a trading hub within Europe and beyond with its ports in Hamburg and Bremen, exposed to the rest o...