The work of Herman Bang is little known in the Anglophone world. Two of his novels, De uden Fædreland (1906; translated as Denied a Country, 1927) and Ludvigsbakke (1896; translated as Ida Brandt, 1928), were published by Alfred A. Knopf, and a...

Dag Heede. Herman Bang: Morkvordige losninger. Toogfirs tableauer. Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag, 2003. Pp. 1-275. Herman Bang's homosexuality is a well-known fact among scholars, whose work it shadows in an uneasy and often understandable balancing act between textual analysis and recourse to the...

Byline: Ford Burkhart The New York Times Dr. Robert Herman, a physicist who began his career by predicting echoes of the origin of the cosmos and later developed a new field called traffic sciences in which statistics can be used to predict...