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Easing back into blogging, I thought I'd do a nice easy What Katy Did in Frankfurt post. Except of course nothing is easy these days, so...

Thanks to the Institute for Media Research at the University of Rostock, we now have a reliable pilot study on book review coverage and gend...

Maxim Biller, eh? He comes across as a bit of a one, a bit of a man-about-my-part-of-town. I don't watch TV shows about literature becau...

Here is something like a translation memoir, the story of Mireille Gansel’s multiple and changing relationships ...

PAULA is a strange, disturbing book. It refuses to sit firmly in any one category. In many ways, it’s a memoir. ...

Hello there! Just to let you know, I've updated my list of original German hardcover Belletristik (fiction, poetry, essays, and I th...

I'm still thinking about how we define "good" in terms of literary translation. For the Seagull Books newsletter, I asked a wh...