by Wendy Newman | Aug 31, 2012 | German Reviews, German Zone
Mandy Wight, Reviews Editor For this, our first online reviews section, I am delighted to be able to include reviews of the new OUP Key Stage 3 course Zoom, which offers an exciting multimedia start to German, as well as a review of the new Zeitgeist for AS level,...
by Wendy Newman | Sep 20, 2011 | German Culture, German Practice, German updates, German Zone
Geoff Brammall, Stockport No 44 Autumn 2011 Sommerlügen (2010) is the latest publication by Bernhard Schlink, perhaps best known to the English reading public for his novel Der Vorleser (1995), which was turned into a highly successful film (2009) with Kate...
by Wendy Newman | Sep 6, 2011 | Italian Culture, Italian updates, Italian Zone
Abele Longo, Middlesex University Internet ha ridefinito la natura individuale e sociale dell’atto poetico che vede l’autore in una posizione sempre meno isolata collaborare con altri autori e farsi allo stesso tempo promotore culturale. Se da una parte troviamo poeti...
by Wendy Newman | Sep 4, 2011 | Russian Reviews, Russian Zone
Andrew Jameson, Reviews Editor Food and Everyday Life in the Post-Socialist World Melissa L Caldwell, ed. Indiana University Press, 2009, 231pp, £17.99 ISBN 978-0-253-22139-1 A curious feature of the socialist countries is that their generally unsuccessful doctrinaire...
by Wendy Newman | Apr 1, 2011 | German Culture, German Practice, German Zone
Richard Littlejohns (Leicester) Hans Magnus Enzensberger published Hammerstein oder Der Eigensinn in 2008, since when it has appeared in paperback and reached the bestseller lists. Now in his eighties, Enzensberger has had a chequered and often controversial career...
