Tonight. Please join us for our last event of the spring semester:

Europe Is About to Drown in the River of the Radical Right nytimes.com/2024/05/07/opi…

Big Germany, What Now? nybooks.com/articles/2024/… via The New York Review of Books

Please join us on 5/8 for a conversation between the photographer Marc Ohrem-Leclef and the curator Allen Frame about our ongoing exhibition 'Ulisse,' and the notions of belonging, migration, desire and memory that inform it. RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

As the official English-language media partner for the German Non-fiction Prize 2023, we are delighted to provide an overview of all shortlisted books 🎉 buff.ly/3WjxpJJ

In this essay, the legendary writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez (tr. Anne McLean) discusses the paradoxes of translation, and the contradictions between invisibility and visibility demanded by the work of translation. buff.ly/3y0Jbys

I spent all of March in hospital, much of it in Kafka’s mysterious, troubled, frustrated and fascinating company. Here’s my review of his unexpurgated Diaries theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

AfD politician to run in European elections despite aide’s alleged spying for China theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Literary love affair. Why Germany fell for a windswept corner of Ireland: theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Please joins us on 5/1 at 6 PM for a literary salon and reading with fatmaaydemir Eileen Myles @habibitus.bsky.social and Uli Baer focusing on the new literary magazine 'Delfi' (with brand new translations by jon cho-polizzi➡️@jpolizei.bsky.social): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Join us on 5/9 at 6 PM, for a conversation w/ German Consulate General NY's Consul General David Gill, the author Alexander Osang, the political scientist Joyce Mushaben, and Brandeis University's Sabine von Mering that will explore what it means to embody an East German identity today: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. nytimes.com/2024/04/18/wor…

Just as we’re starting to get somewhere in convincing people that literary translation is an art that we also derive pleasure from, we’re about to hit ‘can you just edit this mess?’

“Generative AI proving major threat to the work of translators” theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

Austrian publisher Albert Eibl speaks with Regan Mies about the mission of Das vergessene Buch Verlag (DVB), exile writers and the importance of “forgotten literature.”
new-books-in-german.com/publisher-albe…

Please join our friends at Austrian Cultural Forum New York next Wednesday, 4/17 at 6:30 PM when the Austrian-Slovenian writer Ana Marwan will read from her work 'True Toad' ('Wechselkröte') and converse with Melina Tsiamos about her literary work. Details here: eventbrite.com/e/ana-marwan-r…

Join us and NYU German Dept. on 4/16 at 5:30 PM for “A Future in Ruins, Or, How to Make Theater After the End of the World,” a public lecture by Teresa Kovacs, on the theater of Heiner Müller, Elfriede Jelinek, Christoph Schlingensief and more. RSVP here: as.nyu.edu/research-cente…

Our biggest congrats to the shortlisted WWB contributors Selva Almada, Annie McDermott, Jenny Erpenbeck, Michael Hofmann, Kira Josefsson , Hwang Sok-Yong, Sora Kim-Russell & Itamar Vieira Junior!

German art museum fires worker for hanging his own painting in gallery: theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Tonight! Join us!

Berlin Was a Beacon of Artistic Freedom. Gaza Changed Everything. nytimes.com/2024/04/06/art…