Michael Hofmann

In the Pencil Zone

Susan Bernofsky’s biography of Robert Walser approaches her subject with an openness to other, previously rejected possibilities.

Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser

by Susan Bernofsky

February 10, 2022 issue

Heine’s Heartmobile

The liveliness and invention of Heinrich Heine’s writing changed the nature of German literature and of the whole nineteenth century.

Heinrich Heine: Writing the Revolution

by George Prochnik

July 22, 2021 issue

Musil’s Infinities

Intimate Ties: Two Novellas

by Robert Musil, translated from the German and with an afterword by Peter Wortsman

Agathe, or, The Forgotten Sister

by Robert Musil, translated from the German and with an introduction by Joel Agee

March 26, 2020 issue

The Resident

a poem

October 10, 2019 issue

Art for Film’s Sake

Never Look Away

a film written and directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

March 21, 2019 issue

‘A Born Contrarian’

For the subversive, modest, trenchant Bertolt Brecht, a poem is simply the most stringent and economical mode of presenting an argument.

The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht

translated from the German and edited by Tom Kuhn and David Constantine

December 20, 2018 issue

Auden

a poem

October 11, 2018 issue

The Lion in Winter

Of All That Ends

by Günter Grass, translated from the German by Breon Mitchell

June 8, 2017 issue

‘An Adorable Bookling’

Looking at Pictures

by Robert Walser, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky, with additional translations by Lydia Davis and Christopher Middleton

June 23, 2016 issue

Regina Ullmann; painting by Lou Albert-Lasard, 1915

A Puzzling Heroine of German Literature

The Country Road: Stories

by Regina Ullmann, translated from the German by Kurt Beals

October 22, 2015 issue

‘The Kraus Project’

December 19, 2013 issue

Torch Song in Vienna

Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Kraus Project’

The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus

translated from the German and annotated by Jonathan Franzen, with assistance and additional notes from Paul Reitter and Daniel Kehlmann

October 24, 2013 issue

Letter

Leo A. Lensing

‘The Kraus Project’

December 19, 2013 issue

Joseph Roth: Going Over the Edge

December 22, 2011 issue

Kurt Schwitters: Merzz. 96 Standing Yellow, 6 x 4 3/4 inches, 1920; from the exhibition ‘Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage,’ on view at the Menil Collection, Houston, through January 30, 2011. The catalog, edited by Isabel Schulz, has just been published by the museum and Yale University Press. Illustrations (c) 2010 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.

Artist of Everything

Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales

by Kurt Schwitters, translated from the German and with an introduction by Jack Zipes, and with illustrations by Irvine Peacock

December 9, 2010 issue

Two

March 25, 2010 issue

Herr Wehner

April 30, 2009 issue

Passengers with Heavy Loads

December 5, 2002 issue

Translating Joseph Roth

March 28, 2002 issue