The Territory of Trauma
from The Boston Review
Joyce Hackett interviewed over 40 survivors and their children while writing Disturbance. In this essay, she narrates the some of the emotional and ethical challenges she faced during the 13- year process of writing the book.

The Reawakening: On the 100th Anniversary of Kate Chopin's The Awakening
from Harper's
Kate Chopin's The Awakening is the first novelistic masterpiece written by an American woman. This essay explores the history of the book, and why it was forgotten and rediscovered.

REVIEWS

Paradise Park by Allegra Goodman
from the The Boston Review

Simple Stories by Ingo Schulze
from the Chicago Tribune

WRITINGS ON SEBALD

Half-Lives
from London Magazine
A look at how two contemporary German authors attempt the major task of post-war German writers: to reconstitute a moral German self.

Vertigo
from The Boston Review
A look at the use of silence as a response to the Holocaust in Sebald's Vertigo.

The Rings of Saturn
from Salon
A short piece on The Rings of Saturn that contextualizes Sebald's unique place in contemporary literature.