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A caveat to begin with: it has been a while since I finished reading Ralf Rothmann's latest novel, Im Frühling sterben. I wasn't su...

You can now vote for one of 30 titles nominated for the German-language independent publishers' award, the excruciatingly named Hotlist ...

Things have slowed down for summer (apart from Greece), which gives people time to debate the future of literary criticism. Perlentaucher ha...

Sue me – I have never read Rainald Goetz and I'm not even planning to. I think he's like Marmite; you have to have grown up with him...

So here's what's up. First it's been really hot and I've been spending too much time on my own, two things I'm not all t...

The weltschmerz doesn't seem to be going away. So while the German-language Literaturbetrieb* had four days of fun at the Ingeborg Bach...

They asked me to guest-edit an issue of Words without Borders showcasing emerging German writers. I nearly burst, I was so proud and excite...