Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Literature, Reviews, Translations
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Literature, Reviews
A story of loneliness and dislocation that celebrates the art of story-telling.
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Literature, Reviews
“Monsters Like Us” explores the violence human beings inflict on one another, and though pervaded by melancholy, it offers some hope for a better future.
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Literature, Reviews
If being a writer is the greater height, where lower to fall than the foot of a neglected tower block?
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Reviews
Translated into English by Isabel Fargo Cole, Hilbig’s final novel tells of alienation and unrest in Cold War Germany
Knitting a woolen pullover for a tank…yes, it was a political statement, an anti-war statement. It made the tank look ridiculous.
Peter Lewis on the pleasures and pitfalls of translating German to English, from imponderable subclauses and outlandish compound nouns to the translator’s bête noire, the innuendo.
Translator and blogger Katy Derbyshire gets us up to speed on the German literary scene with 11 contemporary books in translation you should be reading.
Explore the London haunts the great German thinkers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on our London walk, designed by Marx expert Heiko Khoo.
Our May issue is out! New short fiction on the theme of Germany from E. E. Mason, Florence Grende, Jim Ruland, Robin Wyatt Dunn and Pippa Anais Gaubert.
Digital Subscriptions, Fiction, Litro #125: Germany
Digital Subscriptions, Fiction, Litro #125: Germany
Digital Subscriptions, Fiction, Litro #125: Germany
Digital Subscriptions, Fiction, Litro #125: Germany
Digital Subscriptions, Letters from the Editor, Litro #125: Germany
Digital Subscriptions, Fiction, Litro #125: Germany