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My little Jiminy Cricket is shrieking at me for not posting anything all week. Boring work and personal issues, sorry. So here's a brief...

Don'cha dig that punctuation, chicks and malchiks? Saturday was Tag der kleinen Verlage am großen Wannsee. That means my most dearly bel...

This is a book with a picture of a corset on the front . And on the back as well, for that matter. The art department was obviously going fo...

Regular readers will know I’m far from impartial on the subject of Sabrina Janesch , having translated her entry for the Ingeborg Bachmann ...

"Dearest Max, My last request: Everything I leave behind me [is] to be burned unread." You probably know all about this already. M...

Not long ago, I referred to the podcasts from the Helene and Kurt Wolff Symposium in Chicago, which I listened to in the bath and can thoro...

Often referred to as the most prestigious literary award for German writers, this year's Georg Büchner Prize has been awarded to Reinhar...