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Pigeons on the Grass

Fata Morgana

by Wolfgang Koeppen, Translated by Michael Hofmann,

From Pigeons on the Grass, a novel, which was published last month by New Directions. Koeppen (1906–96) was a German novelist who was awarded the Büchner Prize in 1962. Translated…

New Books

by Andrew Martin,

A self-portrait by Francisco Goya, 1810 © akg-images/Nimatallah The best-known works of the great Spanish artist Francisco Goya do not give the impression of having been created by a particularly…