Some books slip through the back door into their readers’ minds. Some books don’t need to make showy, grand gestures, or to demonstrate their authors’ skill on every page. K
Elizabeth Taylor (born in 1912 in Reading; died in 1975 in Penn) was overlooked as a writer for a long while, even in Great Britain. Too much a stranger to London and its literary
Edward St Aubyn’s King Lear adaptation: Dunbar und seine Töchter In 2016 and to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, the Hogarth Shakespeare Project
Stealing Away from Time Those with abundant reading material for professional reasons know the sense of fatigue and occasional slight disappointment along with endless disappointme
Novels can naturally be written about people who live on remote farms in the Markgraviate of Brandenburg or who spend their days in stately villas in even more elegant suburbs alon
Anger about everything Is it possible, is it allowed? Can a convincing novel emerge when an author has barely gained perspective on current events? When she makes the characters th
For several years, a notable trend has become evident in (West-)European literature for no-holds-barred autobiographical texts. Previously, in novels the point was often to contriv
Despite all the hostilities, the German Book Prize – nominating the “best novel” since 2005 – is long established as one of the most prestigious awards on the German lite
Among the feuilleton’s most thankless tasks are the fastest discovery of a new literary trend, or being the first to announce that this spring or in the autumn-time there…
It’s time to discuss the next round of prizewinners gain. Hardly has the usual flurry of excitement in the run-up to the Frankfurt Book Fair and the German Book Prize award to Fr
