Here, Rüdiger Safranski sets his sights on the writer considered the Shakespeare of German litera...

Translated from the original Kindheit, written between 1958 and 1980, and published in German in ...

The phrase 'survival of the fittest' conjures an image of the most cutthroat individuals rising t...

Translation of: Ein springender Brunnen.

What is art? What does art offer? Why does art move us? The CRC Different Aesthetics pursues thes...

Appearing together in English for the first time, two masterpieces that take on the jazz age, the...

For readers of Colm Toibin's The Master and Michael Cunningham's The Hours comes a witty, moving,...

A bracing consideration of Impressionism by way of a single masterwork

Winner of the European Book AwardNovember, 1957. The Soviets have just launched the Sputnik, and ...

Susan Sontag (1933-2004) was one of America's first celebrity intellectuals. In the first biograp...

Translation of: Der Sinn des Gebens. Frankfurt am Main, German: S. Fischer, 2010.