Neither one thing nor the other, yet Stelian Munteanu is known to all: the police force, the secret service, even…
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For many years only two novels from Willem Frederik Hermans’ prolific output (Beyond Sleep and The Darkroom of Damocles) were…
The sad occasion of Marcel Péricourt’s funeral turns profoundly tragic when his grandson falls from a second-floor window. The child’s…
When a renowned translator (Katy Derbyshire) starts an imprint (V&Q Books) to bring a favourite novel to Anglophone readers, there’s…
I long wanted to read Jason Lutes classic graphic trilogy of the Weimar Republic, but decided not to do so…
‘German has no future. First of all, because it’s an ugly language, viscous and unclean, an idiom for unlearned people…