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The Anais imprint does literary jazz mags for girls. I looked at the Amazon reviews for Anna Blumbach’s Kurze Nächte and realised that nobo...

The German verb dichten is rather tricky to translate in a pithy way. It means "to write poetry" but it also has a slight ring of...

I've been away over Easter doing mainly non-German-book-related things. But while I was at it I met the gregarious British journalist an...

Dear Selim, How can I possibly review this book? You know I've read it twice, first at the manuscript stage and now the finished, printe...

This is a slightly adapted version of a report I wrote for New Books in German , just in case it sounds vaguely familiar to anyone. If you...

You remember the first single you ever bought, right? And your first kiss, and the first time you seduced a Mormon, and the first time you m...

That daring duo have done it again: Susan Bernofsky's translation of Jenny Erpenbeck's book Visitation is shortlisted for the Indep...