CHRISTOPH IRMSCHER
Author and Critic

"Well-known and influential ... powerful." H-Environment Reviews

“An event.”
Massimo Bacigalupo

Translated by Charles Adams and Christoph Irmscher

"A shrewd, important, and revealing portrait of the ever-unrepentant Eastman." Jill Lepore

"Masterful."
Booklist, Starred review

"Insightful."
James Hanken,
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University

"An eye-opening collection."
Charles Calhoun

"Rich enough to repay multiple readings.”
ISLE

"Essential."
Choice

"Longfellow lives again."
Times Literary Supplement

"A marvelous work."
Library Journal

Winner of the Literature and Language Award, AAP

Winner of the 2009 Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab Award, American Library Association

A Darwin Bicentennial Exhibit, with many illustrations from the Darwin holdings of the Lilly Library.

News

April 28, 2015

Here is my recent review of James Costa's Wallace, Darwin, and the Origin of Species in the Weekly Standard.