From the April 2023 Issue Death & Hypotaxis Brenner By Hermann Burger (Translated from German by Adrian Nathan West)
From the June 2022 Issue Game, Set & Match The Last Days of Roger Federer, and Other Endings By Geoff Dyer LR
From the October 2021 Issue The Eternal Emigrant Speak, Silence: In Search of W G Sebald By Carole Angier LR
From the June 2017 Issue Voilà un Homme! Goethe: Life as a Work of Art By Rüdiger Safranski (Translated by David Dollenmayer)
From the December 2015 Issue Loosening the Chains Light in Germany: Scenes from an Unknown Enlightenment By T J Reed LR
From the November 2015 Issue Heir to Heine New Selected Poems By Hans Magnus Enzensberger (Translated by David Constantine, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Michael Hamburger & Esther Kinsky) LR
From the May 2014 Issue Shocking Early to Weary Late Impromptus: Selected Poems By Gottfried Benn (Translated by Michael Hofmann)
From the February 2014 Issue Weimarana Tales from the Underworld By Hans Fallada (Translated by Michael Hofmann) LR
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