Well deserved. It’s always a pleasure to read you. Here is the link: www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...

And of course: "What seemed foreign as well as most persuasive was the preternatural authority of Sebald’s voice: its gravity, its sinuosity, its precision, its freedom from all-undermining or undignified self-consciousness or irony. » Sontag for @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...

"… Sebald’s meanderings, too, ultimately form a giant ring that ties together many disparate tales and experiences. » @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social for The Paris Review. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/10...

Melancholy: "The world seems full of messages in some secret code… [then] man and his activities seem tiny to the point of insignificance; all sense of purpose dissolves. This vision precipitates a kind of swoon in which the mind collapses." Coetzee for @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/200...