Ryan Ruby

Biography

Ryan Ruby is the author of The Zero and the One: A Novel (Twelve Books, 2017) and a book-length poem, Context Collapse, which was a finalist for the 2020 National Poetry Series Competition. His writing has appeared in Poetry, Conjunctions, the NYR Daily, the Paris Review Daily, and elsewhere. In 2019, he received the Albert Einstein Fellowship from the Einstein Forum in Potsdam. He lives in Berlin.

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CRITICISM / Winter 2020

To Give Saying Its Shadow

By Ryan Ruby

On June 28, 1942, Victor Klemperer wrote in his diary, “Even if I hated Germany, I would not thereby become un-German, I could not tear what was German out of me.” A Protestant convert of Jewish parentage, Klemperer had been forced out of...