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“Lust, Caution" by Eileen Chang: In the midst of the Japanese occupation of China and Hong Kong two people meet, for very different rea...

  “Doktor Faustus” by Thomas Mann: This is, among so many other things, a fictional biography of the composer Adrian Leverkühn, who devote...

  “Königsallee“ by Hans Pleschinski: It is the summer of 1954 and Thomas Mann, Nobel laureate, 80 years old, out from his exile in Switzer...

  “Filthy Animals” by Brandon Taylor: This collection of loosely linked short stories highlights momentary dramas of loosely connected you...

  “The Magician“ by Colm Tóibín: Soon into the very first pages of this book I knew I had successfully hit on another, so very rare,  book...

  Reality is created by observers in the universe: Thus first and prominently speculated John Archibald Wheeler (July 9, 1911 – April 13, 2...

  “Educated“ by Tara Westover: This is the autobiographical story of the author who grew up in a restrictive, dysfunctional survivalists mo...

  “A Year of Marvellous Ways” by Sarah Winman: It is 1947, Marvellous Ways, an 89-year-old woman, who lives alone on the bank of a Cornish...

  “A Month in the County“ by J. L. Carr: This book caught my eye and attention with its cover. I had just finished The Offing by Benjamin ...

  “The Offing“ by Benjamin Myers: In this quiet touching lyrical tale, set in rural England just after Second World War has ended, a man l...

  “Dictation“ by Cynthia Ozick: In this “delightful“ little short story, one of four which make up this book that seems to concern itself ...

 “ Signs and Symbols"  by  Vladimir Nabokov: Whatever one thinks of Nabokov, the man can write. He is a master of his art and a good ex...

  “Alice Knott” by Blake Butler: In a shockingly blasphemous scene, at least blasphemous so to connoisseurs of art, the novel sets the tone...

  “The Italian Teacher“ by Tom Rachman: What follows if one allows ethics to undermine aesthetics?  Does great art justifies monstrous se...

  “Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel: The collapse of civilization, a dystopian world, a possible future. It has been thought of i...

  “Klara and the Sun” by Kazuo Ishiguro: Right from the beginning: I did not like the book. How does it feel to be not-quite human and t...

 “ Cat’s Eye ” by Margaret Atwood: This is Atwood’s refreshingly honest while slightly accusing, slightly misogynistic version of a “Künstl...

Das Dunkeln war wie Reichtum in dem Raume, darin der Knabe, sehr verheimlicht, saß. Und als die Mutter eintrat wie im Traume, erzitterte im ...