Get Access to Print and Digital for $23.99 per year.
Subscribe for Full Access

Germany

Oath of the Elbe

From Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich, edited by Walter Kempowski, out this month from W. W. Norton. On April 25, 1945, Soviet…

Read more

Body Count

By Alexander Kluge, from Air Raid, an account of the destruction of Halberstadt, Germany, by American bomber squadrons on April 8, 1945, out this month from Seagull Books. Kluge is…

Read more

A Kangaroo in Obama’s Court

Will the Guantánamo tribunal execute a man we tortured? 

Read more

A Very Perfect Instrument

The ferocity and failure of America’s sanctions apparatus 

Read more

A Different Kind of Father

By Jonathan Franzen, from a footnote to his translation of “Nestroy and Posterity,” a 1912 essay by the Austrian satirist, playwright, poet, aphorist, and critic Karl Kraus (1874–1936). In the…

Read more

| View All Issues |

September 2013

Close
“An unexpectedly excellent magazine that stands out amid a homogenized media landscape.” —the New York Times
Subscribe now

Debug