A gifted writer, Mr Herzog alternates poetic prose descriptions with accounts of his fevered dreams, though the distinction between the two is not always clear.

作为一名有才华的作家，赫尔佐格先生用对他狂热梦境的记录替代了那些散文诗般的描述，虽然这两者之间并不总有明显的区别。

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He is a writer of true distinction.

他是一位确实不同凡响的作家。

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With this book, the fruit of research in an impressive list of obscure archives, Mr Barnes not only joins the ranks of those journalists able to give academics a good run for their money, but also shows himself to be a travel writer of distinction.

ECONOMIST: 18th-century heroes

Auden, Elizabeth Hardwick, Mary McCarthy, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal and Robert Penn Warren, pointed towards what was to come: a continuous stream of essays, usually discussing a book or books, and usually written by someone recognised as a writer, scholar or thinker of distinction.

ECONOMIST: Barbara Epstein, editor, died on June 16th, aged 77