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This never-before translated work by a major yet overlooked mid-20th century writer is a brutally funny look at the human comedy on the eve of Europe's decent into Fascism.It tells the tale of a failed used car salesman who wants to live the high life, and so decides to travel by train from Munich t... Read More about The Eternal Philistine (Neversink)

Philology, master science of the nineteenth century, has changed so radically over the course of the twentieth century that it is hardly recognizable in the twenty-first. Its scope has been transformed, its methodology contested, and its legitimacy called into doubt. Does it still make sense to spea... Read More about The Future of Philology: Proceedings of the 11th Annual Columbia University German Graduate Student Conference