Gabriele Annan
Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)
From the Review
July 13, 2006: After the Fall
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky, translated from the French by Sandra Smith
March 9, 2006: Suddenly, Last Summer
The Sea by John Banville
October 6, 2005: When the Russians Came
A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City by Anonymous, translated from the German by Philip Boehm
May 12, 2005: Sonata for Three Hands
The Kreutzer Sonata by Margriet de Moor, translated from the Dutch by Susan Massotty
March 10, 2005: A Very Un-English Childhood
Germs: A Memoir of Childhood by Richard Wollheim
November 18, 2004: Love in Upper Bohemia
The Rare and the Beautiful: The Art, Loves, and Lives of the Garman Sisters by Cressida Connolly
August 12, 2004: Lichtenberg in Love
Lichtenberg and the Little Flower Girl by Gert Hofmann,translated from the German and with an afterword by Michael Hofmann
March 25, 2004: Vile Bodies
Some Hope: A Trilogy by Edward St. Aubyn
February 26, 2004: Tales of Two Cities
Bliss by Ronit Matalon,translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen
Someone to Run With by David Grossman,translated from the Hebrew by Vered Almog and Maya Gurantz
August 14, 2003: Cold Comfort
The King in the Tree by Steven Millhauser
April 10, 2003: Portrait of a Princess
Diary of a Djinn by Gini Alhadeff
December 5, 2002: Brief Encounter
Ignorance by Milan Kundera, translated from the French by Linda Asher
November 7, 2002: Surviving
In Lands Not My Own: A Wartime Journey by Reuben Ainsztein
Trains of Thought: Memories of a Stateless Youth by Victor Brombert
Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered by Ruth Kluger, with a foreword by Lore Segal
May 9, 2002: Who Killed Bogomil Trumilcik?
The Horned Man by James Lasdun
February 14, 2002: The Woman Who Rode Away
Beasts by Joyce Carol Oates
November 1, 2001: Ghost Story
Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald, translated from the German by Anthea Bill
July 5, 2001: Escape!
The Peppered Moth Margaret Drabble
May 17, 2001: Shock Treatment
Border Crossing by Pat Barker
April 12, 2001: Act Two
Love, Etc. Julian Barnes
March 8, 2001: Breakdown
Eclipse by John Banville
November 30, 2000: Turncoats
Too Far Afield by Günter Grass, Translated from the Germanby Krishna Winston
September 21, 2000: Twin Peaks
What Are You Like? by Anne Enright
June 29, 2000: Close to the Edge
Mr. Phillips by John Lanchester
March 23, 2000: On Borrowed Time
The Book of Franza and Requiem for Fanny Goldmann by Ingeborg Bachmann, Translated from the German and with an introduction by Peter Filkins
October 7, 1999: Family Secrets
The Last Life by Claire Messud
June 10, 1999: Letting Go
Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice by A.S. Byatt
Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald
May 20, 1999: Ghosts
Another World by Pat Barker
January 14, 1999: Wages of Sin
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
November 5, 1998: Pricks and Kicks
Mistler's Exit by Louis Begley
Europa by Tim Parks
July 16, 1998: Nesting Dolls
33 Moments of Happiness by Ingo Schulze, translated by John E. Woods
Simple Storys by Ingo Schulze
June 25, 1998: The Charms of Theodore Fontane
Theodor Fontane: Literature and History in the Bismarck Reich by Gordon A. Craig
February 19, 1998: Fantasia
Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
Oscar and Lucinda a film directed by Gillian Armstrong
January 15, 1998: The Mahdi's Bullet
The Magician's Wife by Brian Moore
September 25, 1997: Ghosts
The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse
July 17, 1997: No Man's Land
Reality and Dreams by Muriel Spark
April 10, 1997: In Search of the Wild Boy
The Conversations at Curlow Creek by David Malouf
February 6, 1997: An International Episode
Le Divorce by Diane Johnson
October 17, 1996: That's Life
The Collected Stories by Mavis Gallant
August 8, 1996: All About Evil
An Experiment in Love by Hilary Mantel
January 11, 1996: An Affair to Remember
Carrington an exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery, London
Carrington a film directed by Christopher Hampton
August 10, 1995: End of the Line
The Poet Dying: Heinrich Heine's Last Years in Paris by Ernst Pawel
April 20, 1995: Broken Blossoms
Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light by Ivan Klíma, translated by Paul Wilson
The Loves of Faustyna by Nina FitzPatrick
March 23, 1995: Through the Looking Glass
The Last of the Duchess by Caroline Blackwood
December 1, 1994: Enigma Variation
The Following Story by Cees Nooteboom, translated by Ina Rilke
November 17, 1994: The Blood of the Poor
The Silent Angel by Heinrich Böll, translated by Breon Mitchell
November 3, 1994: Love's Old Sweet Song
The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst
May 12, 1994: 'When One Is a Somebody'
Pirandello's Love Letters to Marta Abba edited and translated by Benito Ortolani
February 17, 1994: Love and Friendship
Love From Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford edited by Charlotte Mosley
December 16, 1993: Donna Giovanna
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
November 4, 1993: A Night at the Opera
'Fast and Loose' and 'The Buccaneers' by Edith Wharton, edited and with an introduction by Viola Hopkins Winner
The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton, completed by Marion Mainwaring
The Age of Innocence directed by Martin Scorsese, screenplay by Jay Cocks, by Martin Scorsese
The Age of Innocence: A Portrait of the Film Based on the Novel by Edith Wharton by Martin Scorsese, by Jay Cocks
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, Introduction by R.W.B. Lewis
August 12, 1993: Friend of the Great
Picasso and Dora: A Personal Memoir by James Lord
July 15, 1993: Tales From the Narmada Woods
A River Sutra by Gita Mehta
June 24, 1993: The Skull Beneath the Skin
Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy, translated by Tim Parks
April 22, 1993: La Femme Savante
Rameau's Niece by Cathleen Schine
April 8, 1993: Electra from Beverly Hills
Marlene Dietrich by Maria Riva
March 4, 1993: Devil in the Flesh
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
January 28, 1993: Peacetime Lies
The Man Who Was Late by Louis Begley
December 3, 1992: Sighing Fields
O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker
November 19, 1992: Graveyard Utopia
The Call of the Toad by Günter Grass, translated by Ralph Manheim
August 13, 1992: A Moral Tale
The Volcano Lover: A Romance by Susan Sontag
May 28, 1992: Numbers Game
The Gates of Ivory by Margaret Drabble
May 14, 1992: Still Life
A Closed Eye by Anita Brookner
March 5, 1992: From the Eternal War
Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann, translated by Philip Boehm
December 5, 1991: The Melancholy Prince
The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa by David Gilmour
September 26, 1991: Cautionary Tales
The Tattered Cloak and Other Novels by Nina Berberova, translated by Marian Schwartz
May 30, 1991: Selective Affinities
Immortality by Milan Kundera, translated by Peter Kussi
December 20, 1990: Sociable Murder
Symposium by Muriel Spark
November 8, 1990: Love and Death in South Africa
Age of Iron by J.M. Coetzee
My Son's Story by Nadine Gordimer
September 27, 1990: At the Bottom of the Pond
An Autumn Story by Tommaso Landolfi, translated by Joachim Neugroschel
May 31, 1990: Theme and Variations
Deception by Philip Roth
March 29, 1990: Great-Uncle
Shira by S. Y. Agnon, translated by Zeva Shapiro
February 1, 1990: Look At Me
Memoirs of a Public Baby by Philip O'Connor, introduction by Stephen Spender
December 7, 1989: On the High Wire
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
October 12, 1989: Chaste Lovers
Count d'Orgel's Ball by Raymond Radiguet, translated by Annapaola Cancogni, foreword by Jean Cocteau
June 15, 1989: The Old Devil
Difficulties with Girls by Kingsley Amis
John Dollar by Marianne Wiggins
April 27, 1989: High Romance
Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education by Sybille Bedford
February 2, 1989: Rules of the Game
Utz by Bruce Chatwin
December 22, 1988: Roughing It
High Albania by Edith Durham
The Passionate Nomad: The Diary of Isabelle Eberhardt by Isabelle Eberhardt
My Journey to Lhasa by Alexandra David-Neel
August 18, 1988: The Promised Land
Confessions of a Good Arab by Yoram Kaniuk, translated by Dalya Bilu
Black Box by Amos Oz, translated, in collaboration with the author, by Nicholas De Lange
Twilight by Elie Wiesel, translated by Marion Wiesel
March 17, 1988: Going Every Sort of Hog
Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life by Claire Tomalin
February 4, 1988: Worriers
The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble
The Child In Time by Ian McEwan
September 24, 1987: Changeling
Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton by John Lahr
Prick Up Your Ears a film directed by Stephen Frears, screenplay by Alan Bennett
The Orton Diaries edited by John Lahr
Head to Toe by Joe Orton
June 11, 1987: A Family Fortune
The Afternoon Sun by David Pryce-Jones
April 9, 1987: Living Through the War
Berlin Diaries: 1940–1945 by Marie Vassiltchikov
August 14, 1986: Goodness, How Sad
Nancy Mitford: A Biography by Selina Hastings
Noblesse Oblige: An enquiry into the identifiable characteristics of the English aristocracy edited by Nancy Mitford, introduction by Russell Lynes
The Water Beetle by Nancy Mitford
May 29, 1986: Supermaestro
Herbert von Karajan: A Biographical Portrait by Roger Vaughan
November 7, 1985: The Force of Habit
All Our Yesterdays by Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Angus Davidson
Family Sayings by Natalia Ginzburg, translated by D.M. Low
The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Dick Davis
September 26, 1985: Transcendental Chutzpah
The Death of My Brother Abel by Gregor von Rezzori, translated by Joachim Neugroschel
June 27, 1985: Saigon Mon Amour
The Lover by Marguerite Duras, translated by Barbara Bray
March 14, 1985: Give Him a Break!
Aracoeli by Elsa Morante, translated by William Weaver
February 14, 1985: Girl from Berlin
Marlene Dietrich's ABC
Marlène D. by Marlene Dietrich
Sublime Marlene by Thierry de Navacelle
Marlene Dietrich: Portraits 1926–1960 introduction by Klaus-Jürgen Sembach, epilogue by Josef von Sternberg
Dietrich by Alexander Walker
Marlene a film directed by Maximilian Schell, produced by Karel Dirka
December 20, 1984: Inscrutable Genius
Ivy: The Life of I. Compton-Burnett by Hilary Spurling
December 6, 1984: Correction (letter)
October 11, 1984: International Episodes
Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
September 27, 1984: Rilke in Life and Death
Rilke: A Life by Wolfgang Leppmann, translated in collaboration with the author by Russell M. Stockman
The Sacred Threshold: A Life of Rainer Maria Rilke by J.F. Hendry
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell
June 14, 1984: Breaking Up in Haifa
A Late Divorce by A.B. Yehoshua, Translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin
April 26, 1984: Not So Close to Colette
Colette by Joanna Richardson
The Collected Stories of Colette edited with an introduction by Robert Phelps, translated by Matthew Ward, by Antonia White, by Anne-Marie Callimachi. others
February 16, 1984: The Defrocked Romantic
Heine's Jewish Comedy: A Study of His Portraits of Jews and Judaism by S.S. Prawer
The Complete Poems of Heinrich Heine: A Modern English Version translated by Hal Draper
November 24, 1983: Escape Artist
Pierre Loti: The Legendary Romantic by Lesley Blanch
September 29, 1983: Having It All
Alma Mahler: Muse to Genius by Karen Monson
August 18, 1983: A Family and Its Fortunes
Baron James: The Rise of the French Rothschilds by Anka Muhlstein
July 21, 1983: The Return of La Ronde
Arthur Schnitzler: Plays and Stories edited by Egon Schwarz, with a foreword by Stanley Elkin
October 7, 1982: The Discreet Charm of Fontane
Theodor Fontane: Short Novels and Other Writings edited by Peter Demetz, translated by E.M. Valk, by Ulf Zimmermann, by Krishna Winston
April 1, 1982: A Funny Meister
The Genius of Wilhelm Busch: Comedy of Frustration edited and translated by Walter Arndt
February 18, 1982: The Magician
Thomas Mann: The Making of an Artist by Richard Winston
February 5, 1981: Before the Deluge
Badenheim 1939 by Aharon Appelfeld, translated by Dalya Bilu