Katie Trumpener

Katie Trumpener is the Emily Sanford Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English at Yale, with appointments in Film and Media Studies and in Jewish Studies. She is finishing a book on cinema in the Third Reich and the German occupation of Europe. (January 2024)

A Eulogy of Failed Remembrance

Alexander Kluge’s account of the Allied air raid on his hometown in Germany, while suffering memory lapses of its own, examines the city’s amnesia as a defense against terror.

Air Raid

by Alexander Kluge, translated from the German by Martin Chalmers, with an afterword by W.G. Sebald

January 18, 2024 issue

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