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en-GB w:Philip Oltermann w:Michael Hofmann Michael Hofmann: ‘English is basically a trap. It’s almost a language for spies’ The Guardian 2016-04-09 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/09/books-interview-michael-hofmann-anglo-german-poet-critic-translator 0261-3077 In another LRB review, he had written after reading Martin Amis’s latest, elsewhere feted as a glorious return to form: “I read The Zone of Interest straight through twice from beginning to end and it feels like I’ve read nothing at all.” https://web.archive.org/web/20261013193747/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/09/books-interview-michael-hofmann-anglo-german-poet-critic-translator 13 October 2026