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. All complete issues in very good condition.
They include:
The Times Literary Supplement (London) for 12 July 1996. headed "The Ghosts of the Present," Philip Brady pens a full oversize page review of Sebald's new volume The Immigrants. See photo #2.
The Michael Hulse translated The Rings of Saturn by Sebald is reviewed in this 31 July 1998 number of the Times Literary Supplement by novelist Randolph Stow.
The celebrated author Susan Sontag pens the opening, feature essay (see cover photo, #1) headed "Sebald the Wanderer" in this 25 February 2000 number of the Times Literary Supplement in review of Sebald's Vertigo. The TLS would reprint this notable commentary in its pages 17 years later.
The Times Literary Supplement for 19 October 2001. Gillian Tindall reviews (almost a full oversize page) Sebald's Austerlitz, translated by Anthea Bell. See also below, "2012."
The Threepenny Review (Berkeley) for Winter 2001. Evelyn Toynton pens an essay in review of Sebald's Vertigo. See photo #3.
Headed "Unforgotten Forests," John Greening reviews Sebald's After Nature, translated here by the notable Michael Hamburger in the Times Literary Supplement for 2 August 2002.
Daniel Johnson offers two full oversize pages in an essay reviewing three new works by and related to Sebald that include: The Anthea Bell-translation of Sebald's The Natural History of Destruction; Jorg Friedrich's Berlin issued Der Brand: Deutschland im Bombenkrieg 1940-1945; and Klaus Rainer Rohl's Munich published Verbotene Trauer: Ende der duetschen Tabus. In the Times Literary Supplement, 23 April 2003.
"J.C." (James Campbell) opens his "NB Commentary Columns" with a discussion of the now late (following his death in a 2001 car crash) Sebald's work in the Times Literary Supplement for 30 May 2003.
Marina Warner's "The Lost Life of Things: W.G. Sebald's Place in a Tradition of Storytelling and Bookmaking to Which Objects are Made to bear Witness." In the Times Literary Supplement for 11 July 2008. See photos #6-7.
British writer, teacher, novelist and historian Marina Warner offers a longer letter of 15 August 2008 to the Times Literary Supplement recounting her recent lecture on Sebald's work, in particular, on Sebald's reference to the actual (or partly real, or imagined) relic (skull) of 17th Century author Sir Thomas Browne in his The Rings of Saturn. This is a letter of some interest.
Ben Hutchinson contributes most of a column on the often-overlooked poems by Sebald appearing in Germany headed Uber Das Und Das Wasser: Ausgewahlte Gedichie 1964-2001 in the Times Literary Supplement for 14 November 2008.
Will Self's (noted on cover "Sebald's Holocaust") "The Good German: Absent Jews and Invisible Executioners: W.G. Sebald and The Holocaust." In the Times Literary Supplement for 22 January 2010. See photos #7-8.
W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz. This is a first-rate essay by the able James Wood that appears in his collection of essays (hardcover) The Fun Stuff (2012). First edition in a dust wrapper. 339 pages. This important critical essay had originally appeared as the introduction to a new edition of Austerlitz published by Random House in 2011.
Brian Dillon contributes a longer essay in review of Sebald's A Place in the Country, translated by Jo Catling in the Times Literary Supplement for 11 October 2013.
The Times Literary Supplement (London) for 3 February 2017. The peerless Ruth Scurr contributes (full page illustrated) an essay on "The Far-reaching Influence and Many Enthusiasms of Sir Thomas Browne to this number of the weekly, not missing the influence Browne had on Sebald, most notably in his 1995 The Rings of Saturn.
The always lively James Campbell notes the publication, along with discussion, of some Sebald letters that just appeared in an obscure New York annual called Little Star in his back page commentary in the Times Literary Supplement for 10 January 2014.
The New York Review of Books for October 21, 2021. See photos #4 and #5. Ben Lerner contributes three+ oversize pages to a review of Carole Angier's Speak, Silence: In Search of W.B. Sebald.
The able Michael Wood reviews (and see above) Carole Angier's Speak, Silence: In Search of W.G. Sebald in the London Review of Books, 6 January 2022.
"Eyes Wide Open: The Austrian Literary Tradition in the Work of a German Master." Anne Fuchs reviews Sebald's Silent Catastrophes: Essays in Austrian Literature, translated by Jo Catling in the Times Literary Supplement (London), 14 February 2025.
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Salman Rushdie, Edgar Allan Poe, Graham Greene, William H. Gass, William
Logan, Thom Gunn, Hilary Mantel, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Martin Heidegger,
Allen Ginsberg, Cyril Connolly, William Wordsworth, Modernist Literature and
Poetry, Karen Solie, Gabriel Garcia
Marquez, Muriel Spark, Mark Strand, Margaret Atwood, Jose
Saramago, C.K. Williams, Early Christianity, Mary Karr,
Robert Duncan, Naguib Mahfouz, Patricia Highsmith, Elfriede
Jelinek, David Ferry, Robert Pinsky, David Jones, Paul
Celan, Bruce Chatwin, Henry Irving (actor), Walter de la
Mare, Henry Adams, Arthur Hugh
Clough, Ivan Turgenev, John Cowper & Llewelyn Powys, William
Cullen Bryant, George Crabbe, Richard G. Stern, Edward
W. Said, Clarice Lispector, Margaret Atwood, James Baldwin.
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Vladimir Nabokov,
Charles Reznikoff, Max Beerbohm, Geoffrey Hill, Seamus Heaney, George Meredith,
Georges Simenon, Hamlin Garland, Roberto Bolano, Michael Hofmann, Aldous Huxley, Gay
Talese, Norman Mailer, Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Charlotte Mew,
Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, Charles Simic, W.H. Hudson, Fernando Pessoa, Henry
James, W.S. Merwin, Stanley Kunitz, Francine Prose, Hart Crane,
Basil Bunting, Norman Rockwell, and an extensive accumulation of Chicago’s Poetry magazine
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