H.G. Adler survived the Holocaust to write a monumental, meticulous study of the Nazi’s ‘model community,’ one of the first of its kind, in German. Why did it take so long to be translated to English?
Only now, years after he survived Auschwitz, can we hear the alienation and fury of H.G. Adler’s newly translated ‘Shoah Trilogy’
Lost Books
An archive of the best books lost in the stacks
The letters exchanged by Elias Canetti, his wife, and his brother reveal the artist’s self-absorption
In literary London, Elias Canetti was everybody’s favorite refugee