Germany

Kids Say the Darndest Things

Translated by Natascha Hoffmeyer,

From a conversation between Olaf Scholz and two eleven-year-olds, Pauline and Romeo, who were interviewing candidates for chancellor of Germany. The exchange aired in September on Late Night Berlin. Scholz…

Late Edition

by Heinrich von Kleist, Translated by Matthew Spencer,

From Anecdotes, a collection of vignettes that originally appeared in Kleist’s newspaper Berliner Abendblätter, which began publication in 1810. Kleist took his own life the following year. The collection will…

The Sorrows of Young Wörter

Translated by John Sherman,

From a list compiled by the Leibniz Institute for the German Language of more than a thousand German words that have been coined since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.…

Two Germanys

by Sigrid MacRae,

The East, the West, and the meaning of home

Triangulation

by Thomas Chatterton Williams,

As of this writing, the United States, which has 4.2 percent of the world’s population, accounts for nearly 30 percent of total COVID-19 mortalities. Among Americans, a common response to…

Teutomania

by Ian Buruma,

Tracing the origins of the German nation

No Reservations

by Marc-Olivier Bherer,

From “The ‘Noble Indian’: A Godsend for the Extreme Right,” published in Le Monde last July. Translated from the French by John Cullen. Sitting Bull was a Sioux chief who…

The Storyteller

by Harper’s Magazine, on April 15, 2019

Pierre Jarawan explores the evolution of identity and home in his debut novel

At Last

by Olivier Kugler,

Echt Deutsch

by Yascha Mounk,

How the refugee crisis is changing a nation’s identity

Remains of the Day

by Christa Wolf, Katy Derbyshire,

By Christa Wolf (1929–2011), from One Day a Year, a journal that she kept each September 27 from 1960 until her death. The most recent volume will be published next month by…

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