In my introduction I mentioned that before working on The German Riveter my experience of German literature was limited to…

November 2019 – The German Riveter
The change in mainstream mores that led to concessions such as a royal pardon for Alan Turing has also fed…
Maxim Biller, eh? He comes across as a bit of a one, a bit of a man-about-town. I don’t watch…
Readers may be familiar with Maxim Leo from his book Red Love: The Story of an East German Family (Pushkin,…
Auf dem Seil – literally ‘on the tightrope’ – is the book’s title. Is life in fact a perpetual balancing…
The sheer breadth of writing featured in these pages is testament to the extraordinary talent coming out of Germany today,…