Eric Gibson

Jan 7, 2025 | newcriterion.com | Sarah Ruden |Anthony Daniels |Karen Wilkin |Eric Gibson

Fiction:All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, translated by Kurt Beals (Liveright):A timely passage, perhaps, to read on the heels of holiday feasting is the opening scene of All Quiet on the Western Front: surprise double rations leave the narrator’s ragged company “stuffed and satisfied,” the cook sergeant unsure “how he can possibly empty his whole goulash cannon” (Gulaschkanone in German, a portable field kitchen).