Professor Birgit Tautz’s latest book shines a new light on German literary history around the turn of the nineteenth century. Translating the World: Toward a New History of German Literature Around ...

If, then, I make bold to venture a few remarks upon the essential dissimilarity of the American and the German temper, and upon the effect of this dissimilarity on the standing of German literature in ...

Reporting from Berlin — Guenter Grass, the Nobel-winning German writer who gave voice to the generation that came of age during the horrors of the Nazi era but later ran into controversy over his own ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. A New History of German Literature actually delivers far more than its title suggests. It consists of some 200 ...

Michael Curschmann, a professor of Germanic languages and literatures, emeritus, at Princeton University, died Oct. 7 at his home in Princeton. He was 81. Curschmann's wide-ranging scholarship on ...

Books are an essential part of cultural life, even in the digital age. The art of translation makes it possible for them to have an impact beyond the countries of their origin and to contribute to ...