The Cabinet of Dr. Kracauer  

Siegfried Kracauer: An Introduction by Gertrud Koch, translated by Jeremy Gaines Princeton University Press, 2000, 137 pp., $14.95 Sometime in the early 1990s, while I was a graduate student in Germany, I stumbled across a small paperback at one of …



Picking Up the Pieces  

Zig Zag: The Politics of Culture and Vice Versa by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, translated by Linda Haverty Rugg, et al. The New Press, 1998, 342 pp., $25 Here is a cherished anecdote told every now and then at Wesleyan University, …