Books That Travel 2021

Austrian author Karl Kraus was the foremost German-language satirist of the early twentieth century. This is the first complete English...

Austrian author Karl Kraus was the foremost German-language satirist of the early twentieth century. This is the first complete English translation of a complex and essential work.

When Nibbles, an inquisitive young mouse, scampers onto a waiting train at the local station, little does he know he...

When Nibbles, an inquisitive young mouse, scampers onto a waiting train at the local station, little does he know he is about to be swept along on a cross-country adventure. How will he find his way back home?

Written in 1951, The Turncoat is the long-forgotten second novel of acclaimed author Siegfried Lenz. Rediscovered after Lenz’s death in...

Written in 1951, The Turncoat is the long-forgotten second novel of acclaimed author Siegfried Lenz. Rediscovered after Lenz’s death in 2014, the novel is a new mid-century classic.

A tale of four generations plays out between the ruins of Nazi Germany and the rise and fall of communist...

A tale of four generations plays out between the ruins of Nazi Germany and the rise and fall of communist East Germany, the birth of the Berlin Republic, and the shadow of a new millennium.

A grand narrative of the intertwining lives of Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Ernst Cassirer, major philosophers whose...

A grand narrative of the intertwining lives of Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Ernst Cassirer, major philosophers whose ideas shaped the twentieth century.

Best known for his postmodern play Hamletmachine, the dramatist Heiner Müller was also a gifted and prolific poet. This book...

Best known for his postmodern play Hamletmachine, the dramatist Heiner Müller was also a gifted and prolific poet. This book collects over four hundred poems, including unpublished drafts and fragments.