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Book Reviews by subject:
Biography & Germany

December 2024 Issue

Lucy Lethbridge

Once Upon a Time in Marburg

The Brothers Grimm: A Biography

By Ann Schmiesing

November 2021 Issue

Thomas Kielinger

Goodbye to Berlin

The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

By Kati Marton

February 1990 Issue

Dennis Sewell

Loyalty on the Trott

A Good German: Adam von Trott zu Solz

By Giles Macdonogh

November 1995 Issue

Frank McLynn

A Monster of Egotism too Easily Forgiven

Hannah Arendt – Martin Heidegger

By Elzbieta Ettinger

December 2002 Issue

Daniel Johnson

A Colossus Among Pygmies

Thomas Mann: Life as a Work of Art – A Biography

By Hermann Kurzke (Translated by Leslie Willson)

March 2017 Issue

John Clay

Say What You See

The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test and the Power of Seeing

By Damion Searls

June 2016 Issue

Peter Marshall

Reforming Spirit

Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet

By Lyndal Roper

June 2016 Issue

Tom Stern

Ecce Homunculus

The Making of Friedrich Nietzsche: The Quest for Identity, 1844–1869

By Daniel Blue

April 2016 Issue

Stoddard Martin

Son of Mann

Cursed Legacy: The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann

By Frederic Spotts

March 2016 Issue

Stoddard Martin

Writers’ Retreat

Summer Before the Dark: Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936

By Volker Weidermann (Translated by Carol Brown Janeway)

July 1991 Issue

Kathleen Tynan

A Nice, Old-Fashioned Sort of Girl

The Bride of the Wind: The Life and Times of Alma Mahler

By Susanne Keegan

July 1986 Issue

Ray Ockenden

Rilke the Romantic

A Ringing Glass: The Life of Rainer Maria Rilke

By Donald Prater

Letters, Summer 1926: Pasternak, Tsvetayeva, Rilke

By Yevgeny Pasternak, Yelena Pasternak & Konstantin Azadorsky (eds)

November 2015 Issue

Lara Feigel

Lili & Leni

Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives

By Karin Wieland (Translated by Shelley Frisch)

September 2015 Issue

John Adamson

The Sword & the Flute

Frederick the Great: King of Prussia

By Tim Blanning

June 2015 Issue

Richard Overy

His Master’s Voice

Goebbels: A Biography

By Peter Longerich (Translated by Alan Bance, Jeremy Noakes & Lesley Sharpe)

June 2003 Issue

John Laughland

A Sick Genius

Friedrich Nietzsche

By Curtis Cate

December 2004 Issue

Simon Heffer

Nietszche Fetched His Silk Panties

Wagner: The Last of the Titans

By Joachim Köhler

April 2010 Issue

Rupert Christiansen

Rhine Maiden

Cosima Wagner: The First Lady of Bayreuth

By Oliver Hilmes (Translated by Stewart Spencer)

April 2008 Issue

Simon Heffer

Mannic Depression

In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain: The Erica and Klaus Mann Story

By Andrea Weiss

November 2007 Issue

Simon Heffer

Seven Symphonies Strong

Sibelius

By Andrew Barnett