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...Despite seeming like autofiction (narrating the story of an American photography professor with Nigerian roots, the author’s mirror image), this story is more like a jigsaw — a WG Sebald-like collage of...
...While rejecting biographical clichés — he scorns WG Sebald’s The Emigrants, where a painter called Aurach erases his work “because of the Holocaust. It’s philistine: I erase to make a better image!”...
...In the process Cole has drawn repeated comparison with the writers WG Sebald and John Berger for his blending of text and photographs that resist easy interpretation, inviting us to view the world in new...
...The Australians were able to indulge in a great deal of you-tooism, citing examples of dodgy behaviour by every Englishman from the Victorian totem WG Grace to examples implicating both Bairstow and the...
...Kinsky’s narrators, like the wistful characters of WG Sebald novels, move through the world in step with the shadow of their past. Fittingly, Rombo won the inaugural WG Sebald Literaturpreis in 2020....
...It might be different if WG Grace turned up at Lord’s, though — especially if he appeared when English cricket’s newest invention, The Hundred, was taking place....
...In November 2001, just a month before he died in a car crash near his home in East Anglia, WG Sebald delivered his last public lecture, to an audience in Stuttgart....
...The melancholic, drifting prose of Duncan’s earlier novels has earned him comparisons to German émigré author WG Sebald, whose books Geoff Dyer once described as having a “posthumous quality” to them; this...
...It’s why the great WG Sebald said: “It’s hard to write something original about Napoleon, but one of his minor aides is another matter.”...
...HOLD: Wood Group (WG.) The energy services and engineering group is looking to upcoming divestment to clear its debt pile, writes Alex Hamer....
...The director’s new film, loosely inspired by WG Sebald’s book, is about the saturation bombing of German cities by the Allied forces during the second world war — and it also touches on the bombing of Coventry...
...When something on his travels caught his eye, WG Sebald would photograph it with a camera of no great distinction....
...HOLD: Wood Group (WG.)...
...WG who? Patricia NilssonWe’re in the dusty hills of the San Fernando Valley in the north-west outskirts of LA. Kelly Holland is an old school feminist....
...Oliver Smith Antwerpen-Centraal Station, Belgium I had wanted to visit Antwerpen-Centraal ever since I read WG Sebald’s novel Austerlitz — which opens with the narrator meeting the title character in the...
...It calls to mind the work of WG Sebald who, in works such as The Emigrants and On the Natural History of Destruction, examined the long shadows cast by the Holocaust and the second world war....
...Highlight: The Harrods Depository, (WG Hunt, 1911-14), was once a warehouse....
...Their coach Jürgen Klopp will have joined the list of Germans who do their best work in Britain: not quite a Marx or a Handel, but dearer to more people than Frank Auerbach or WG Sebald....
...The spot has a wild, otherworldly quality that caught the attention of WG Sebald, who wrote of his visit in The Rings of Saturn (1995): “Where and in what time I truly was that day at Orford Ness I cannot...
...And he wears the English game’s most recognisable beard since WG Grace, the Victorian-era great....
..., though never uninteresting — nothing in this book is uninteresting — don’t formally achieve the freewheeling motion that is perhaps aimed for, and which is so satisfying in writers like Geoff Dyer or WG...
...It isn’t right to say he finds solace or answers in the literary landscapes he explores — from WG Sebald’s flatlands to the spirit-stained Cheshire of Alan Garner or Derek Jarman’s Dungeness....
...There was Stanley Matthews, 38, leading Blackpool to the FA Cup in 1953; Foreman himself, regaining the world heavyweight title at 45; WG Grace, 47 and regarded as a cricketing has-been, enjoying an amazing...
...Like WG Sebald, the German-born writer known for his meditative juxtaposition of words and images, Szirtes makes careful use of photographs within his text; unlike Sebald, he subjects each to a piercing...
...She enjoyed working with living authors, developing a particularly fruitful relationship with WG Sebald, the German author who moved to England after the second world war....
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