Schlump by Hans Herbert Grimm. NYRB Classics, 2016. Paperback, 288 pages, $16.95. Reviewed by Michael Shindler There are the great German books of the First World War that everyone knows: Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, Ernst Jünger’s Storm of...
Irrevocable: A Philosophy of Mortality by Alphonso Lingis University of Chicago Press, 2018. Paperback, 240 pages, $30. Reviewed by Michael Shindler Little stirs people to write as much as death’s approach. Some write wills and memoirs, others write verse and...
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