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A reader posted a comment about the Crowley/Gates case, and I want to expand the topic somewhat...see my response. The thread now has drifte...

A reader asked about "Wetlands", which is a translation of the German novel Feuchtgebiete , a bestseller in Germany when I was the...

Here's another something+ zwang word without exact English equivalent that I find useful. It's composed of Sach , short for Sache ...

I'm grateful to a reader for restarting the political discussion we had last fall on this blog. I don't know if we can muster again ...

Here, finally, is the slide show I have been yacking about for days: Start show The handsome fellow accompanying me is one of my brothers, D...

The Viennese poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) is perhaps best known outside the German-speaking countries as the librettist of many St...

When my (American) wife learned German, I understood for the first time the difficulties posed for English speakers by the gender of German ...