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I've been thinking about what happens when writers talk about translation, and when translators talk about our work. Mostly I've bee...

Long nights drawing in, etc. etc. You need to buy presents for people. You have an evangelical streak and a passion for German books. I am h...

Lots and lots of things are happening in Berlin right now, just to make you envious instead of me, for a change. Starting tomorrow with Adam...

For quite some time, German publishers were thoroughly old-school. That meant they were not only very wary of electronic formats, but also q...

One of the things people say to me about once a week is that Berlin must have changed a great deal over the past years. Presumably they say ...

Hooray! The Bremen Literature Prize will be awarded to Clemens Meyer for his amazing novel Im Stein . €20,000 and it won't arrive in hi...

There are books that work better outside of their own territories, and Maxim Leo's Red Love seems to be one of them. It is a piece of l...