CHRISTOPH IRMSCHER

“An event.”
Massimo Bacigalupo

Translated by Charles Adams and Christoph Irmscher

"Masterful."
Booklist, Starred review

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

"Longfellow lives again."
Times Literary Supplement

"A marvelous work."
Library Journal

"An eye-opening collection."
Charles Calhoun

"Rich enough to repay multiple readings.”
ISLE

"Essential."
Choice

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.

Blog

April 28, 2015

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