Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald, by Carole Angier. Bloomsbury. 640 pages. $32. In mid-August of this year I traveled from Berlin to the small town of Sonthofen, in the Allgäu region of ...

I didn’t go to high school. This I think of as one of my proudest accomplishments and one of my greatest escapes, because everyone who grows up in the United States goes to high school. It’s such an ...

Untitled drawings by Wanda Pimentel from the series Animais Preto e Branco, 1965–67, which is on view this month at Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, in Rio de Janeiro. Courtesy the… ...