UChicago course examines the transformation trope across literature and film—from repressed desire to outsider identities ...

We support publishers worldwide who translate German-language books. The Goethe-Institut reimburses a share of the translation costs. The application process takes place online via the Goethe ...

Wilson has never been afraid of big subjects. His previous books have tackled the Victorians, Charles Dickens, Dante, Jesus ...

Students of language and legend, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm made a permanent mark on history when they gathered their compendium ...

The transcultural literature project Geschichten vom Schwarzen Meer – Black Sea Lit is meant to open a dialog about the Black ...

The bestselling author of “The Girl on the Train” offers up another page-turner. The remote Scottish island of Eris was once home to a famous artist named Vanessa, whose husband mysteriously ...

The truth is that religion will always be an awkward and difficult fit because it challenges us to think ‘outside the box’, not to allow others to do our thinking for us and to listen closely to the ...

FICTION PICK OF THE WEEK Little Bit Heather Taylor-Johnson Wakefield Press, $32.95 ...

Great books are by definition not the books you read ... Montaigne, Shakespeare and Goethe and Emerson’s favorite, the theologian Emanuel Swedenborg. Napoleon is the only political leader ...

As libraries become public stages for social problems — homelessness, drug use, mental health — the people who work there are burning out. By Christina Caron In “Feast While You Can ...

On October 15, Ho Chi Minh City donated more than 200 Vietnamese books to the library of Goethe University in Frankfurt, ...

Because Daniel Shuminov was involved in a Palestine camp at Goethe University, the Historical Museum has withdrawn all his ...