The 17 thin slices of "Augment" (1968) are oriented on the floor like cold cuts packed for grocery shoppers, in a graded pile. Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland ...

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“It has to be said, there are no points to be won from liking Hesse nowadays.” This rueful assessment of the novelist Hermann Hesse, quoted in the opening pages of Gunnar Decker’s new biography, ...

Photograph of Eva Hesse, ca. 1969. Allen Memorial Art Museum, gift of Helen Hesse Charash, 1977 (all images courtesy AMAM, unless otherwise noted) OBERLIN, OH — “We like to think that we discovered ...

In a sunlit courtyard in Montagnola, in the southern foothills of the Swiss Alps, German author and curator Regina Bucher is telling me about her lifelong fascination with Hermann Hesse. Regina moved ...

“Before your LSD session, read Siddartha and Steppenwolf,” advised Timothy Leary. By John Gray Writing to the woman who would become his third wife, Hermann Hesse complained: “Life for me now holds ...

It is the fate of certain writers to be associated with an age, more biological than historical. Childhood has its pantheon of Enid Blyton, Nancy Drew, Richmal Crompton, JRR Tolkien and more recently ...

Can a slight, self-effacing, 26-year-old writer from Normal, Illinois, help revive a Washington Post Style section suffering from shortened stories and shrinking staff? If readers come for witty prose ...