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Publishers and translators often rescue necessary works from oblivion. Melville House, employing the gifted translator Michael Hofmann, has rescued Hans Fallada's "Every Man Dies Alone." Published in 1947, it was the last book from a German author who led a troubled life. ...

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At an exclusive post-book festival event at Vroman's bookstore in Pasadena, Carolyn Kellogg, LA Times Jacket Copy book blogger—and self-confessed music geek—sits down to interview Ben Greenman about and the life and music of Rock Foxx, the subject of his new book, Please Step Back.

Sixty-nine years ago, a middle-aged German couple committed a courageous act of resistance: leaving handwritten cards with anti-Nazi messages all around Berlin. Seven years later, the German novelist Hans ...

A conversation about German writer Hans Fallada with Ulrich Ditzen, son of Hans Fallada, Liesl Schillinger of

From the moment Noa met Alek, she was stripped of her dignity, unable to resist him. In Gail Hareven's witty, compelling Confessions of Noa Weber, Noa admits the humiliating details to her daughter in hopes of exorcising the demon.

A Hidden Life: A Memoir of 1969 by Johanna Reiss A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Sunday March 8th at 2.30pm ...

In a rollicking piece of reportage based on years of reporting, Harper's Magazine Publisher John R. MacArthur examines how the system really works-and doesn't work-nowadays. Why is it that all the major candidates seem to be rich Ivy-Leaguers...

“I hope this new publisher uses my blurb this time. I was a little sad that the other one didn't use it. They could have sold tens of copies if they'd put my blurb on that book. But this book is better; these poems are serious and funny and more than they appear...

Half the world is malnourished, the other half obese—both symptoms of the corporate food monopoly...

Shown here for the first time, these seventy-five patches reveal a secret world of military imagery and jargon, where classified projects are known by peculiar names ("Goat Suckers," "None of Your Fucking Business," "Tastes Like Chicken") and illustrated with occult symbols and ridiculous cartoons...