San Antonio College Library

Few figures in twentieth-century literary life enjoyed such a stormy sibling relationship as the brothers Thomas and Heinrich Mann. This book, the first complete English-language translation of their correspondence, provides an introduction to the intimate details of their personal and professional lives. From their differing views on the First World War and the question of Germany's future after the Second to the intense rivalry that accompanied...

"In this never-before-translated exchange of letters spanning almost thirty years, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salome, a charismatic writer fourteen years his senior, chart a relationship that moves from that of lovers to that of mentor and protege to that of deepest personal and literary allies. From the time of their first meeting and consequent affair to Rilke's death in 1926, Rilke and Andreas-Salome reel through extremes of love,...

A collection of eighteen essays, reports and reminiscences (all but one of which have previously appeared in The New Yorker as a "Letter from the East" or some other compass point). Author writes of coons, and how a swallow builds a nest, and the way a Maine fire department attends a fire, and also of fallout, disarmament and the United Nations.