Jenny Erpenbeck’s novel “Kairos” folds intimations of German history and cultural memory into a torrid romance.

German poet Durs Grünbein and British translator Karen Leeder have won the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize for the collection Psyche Running. The $130,000 prize is the world's largest prize for a ...

An ambitious history of Germany interrogates the country’s moral makeover In ‘Out of the Darkness,’ Frank Trentmann covers 80 years to assess the reckoning with the Nazi legacy ...

Was Weimar Germany doomed? A vibrant new history argues it wasn’t. Harald Jähner’s “Vertigo” recaptures and endorses the era’s spirit of modern excess, and argues that it could have lasted.

After being blocked by Poland's former national-conservative government, volume four in the German-Polish history textbook series can at last be used in Polish schools — a happy ending to a four ...

Title-story in this book is a compressed novelet (it covers 35 years in 29 pages) of the love affair between Warren Hastings, ruler of India, and a little German hausfrau.

On May 10, 1933, university students in 34 university towns across Germany burned over 25,000 books.

German author Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann won the International Booker Prize for fiction for Kairos, the story of a tangled love affair during the final years of East Germany's ...

These contradictions are beautifully captured in Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany, German-British historian Katja Hoyer’s second book.

The Long Shadow of German Colonialism tells of a brutal history, and how this past lives on today.