Jonathan Steinberg

Life, death and everything in between

There’s nothing like this sprawling, 2,000-page novel covering Nazi Germany, the Mafia and the Vietnam War for ambition and atmosphere

issue 24 November 2018

  • Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl (two volumes)

    Uwe Johnson, translated fromthe German by Damion Searls

    NYRB Classics

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