Kehlmann's "The Director" is a story of artistic compromise. Some of its scenes are inspired by his father's life under ...

and the illustrations in this book prove the point. The emotional validation of ruins was, however, neatly expressed by the 18th-century artist and writer William Gilpin who wrote that to endow a ...

Mocking German leaders is punished like heresy was punished 500 years ago—though no one has been publicly torched yet. Do the priggish German prosecutors realize that they are the latest incarnation ...

The result — scherenschnitte, or scissors cutting in German — enlivens the pages of Ripple’s book, “The Raub Family Country Doctors and Their Medical Flora Remedies in the 19th Century.’’ ...

Modern covers of Ingersoll Lockwood's novels from the late 19th century ... German ancestry. Much like the recent turn of events that brought Donald Trump back to power, "The Last President" book ...

A pair of obscure novels written in the late 19th century had ... hints at German ancestry - much like the Trump family, whose roots trace back to Germany. The second book, 'The Last President ...

The plotless book tries to make sense of and to embody a frenzied world, offering none of the safety or resolution readers typically found in novels from the 19th century, which deployed ...

To Be a Pilgrim, Joyce Gary’s fourth novel to be published in the U.S., was a knowing, good-humored look at 20th Century ... German battleship in the greatest sea hunt in naval history. Of the ...

They were immigrants to the New World, German Jews who had come to the outermost ... may judge harshly the collision of cultures in 19th-century Sitka. The consequences of that time echo down ...

This year's edition of the Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's oldest and biggest book fair, begins with the announcement of 2024's German Book ... press in the 15th century. Re-established after ...