Sven Birkerts

Biography

Sven Birkerts is the author of six books, most recently My Sky Blue Trades: Growing Up Counter in a Contrary Time (Viking, 2002), and the editor of three others. His numerous awards include a National Book Critics Circle Award for excellence in reviewing and the PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the best book of essays. Since 2002 he has edited the journal Agni.

See Work

ESSAYS / Summer 2005

Humboldt’s Gift

By Sven Birkerts
ESSAYS / Winter 2005

A Weekend at Montauk

By Sven Birkerts

Max Frisch’s Montauk, packed with these dissolving moments, is one of a small handful of works toward which I feel proprietary, if not downright possessive. I alternately want to pass the book along to everyone I know and to keep it close...