Spiphanies

I came across another interesting example the other day for my occasional series on nonsense poetry -- a pair of poems in German and Latin f...

As I've been working with my German students I've noticed a number of topics which many of them seem to struggle with and which none...

Relativ oft bin ich über zwei Wörter in deutschen Foren gestolpert, wo ich nicht so richtig weiss, was ich darüber denken soll. Es handelt s...

I'm already starting to get excited about a production of Gogol's Revizor which will be performed this summer bilingually in Russia...

Seit Wochen schriebe ich nichts zu Ende. Und doch wimmert mein Kopf gerade so mit Gedanken. Zu viele Gedanken, vielleicht, dass ich nicht me...

Ursula K. Le Guin's novel The Left Hand of Darkness is another interesting example of a science fiction novel that confronts the reader...

For some time I've been involved with the Internet Book List , which is basically an online book database which keeps track of various t...