Hard on the heels of the news this week that a never-before-seen-by-the-public collection of documents by Franz Kafka and Max Brod may at last be released to the Israeli National… Read more »

For six years late in her life, the German author Irmgard Keun lived in the psychiatric ward in a hospital in Bonn. After being discharged in 1972 she lived an impoverished existence in a… Read more »