July Books: Finlay, Emmerling, Birrell

A frenetic Berlin tech satire from Susan Finlay, Leonhard Emmerling's erudite account of idiocy, and Rebecca Birrell on art, fascism, and polyamory in…

Jul 7 • Julia Bosson, Hunter Dukes, and Gabriel Flynn

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June 2026

Hurry! 3:09–3:19, Wednesday, June 10, 2026

A bit over 10 questions in 10 minutes on the musical Hurry, 591 BC–2007

Jun 23 • Sanders Isaac Bernstein

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Dženana Vucic: 'History happens to all of us'

The Bosnian-Australian author talks about war, memory, and what poems can do differently.

Jun 16 • Alexander Wells

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June Books: Rauhut, Miller, Hoyer

The GDR rock band Silly, poems by Alice Miller, and Katja Hoyer on the rise of fascism in interwar Weimar

Jun 2 • Alexander Wells and Mathilde Montpetit

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May 2026

Short fiction by Sylvia Krupicka

A new story, after Christa Wolf, in the original German and an English translation by Alexander Wells

May 27 • Alexander Wells

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Kate McNaughton: 'Herta Müller reminds us that writers are on the front line.'

The novelist on her new translation of the Romanian-born Nobel Prize winner—and the limits of beauty as resistance

May 19 • Kate McNaughton and Sanders Isaac Bernstein

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May Books: Barton, Koeppen, Celan

An expat novel by Polly Barton, two thirds of Wolfgang Koeppen's postwar trilogy, prose ephemera from Paul Celan, and an apology

May 5 • Sanders Isaac Bernstein and Mathilde Montpetit

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April 2026

Short non-fiction by Sanders Isaac Bernstein and Marcel Krueger

‘Daily Maintenance’ and ‘Many People in Our Country are Very Concerned About This’

Apr 28 • Sanders Isaac Bernstein and Marcel Krueger

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Hilda Hoy: ‘Well, I exist. Surely there are other people like me out there.’

The journalist discusses her new memoir, MOTHER TONGUE

Apr 21 • Mathilde Montpetit

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April Books: Zaqtan, Mehr, Biedermann

New poetry from Ghassan Zaqtan, Mariella Mehr's short prose, and a novel by Nelio Biedermann—plus some informative verse

Apr 7 • Alexander Wells and Sanders Isaac Bernstein

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March 2026

Short fiction by Katy Derbyshire and Roxie Perkins

‘Jane’s Day’ and ‘I Am Its’

Mar 24

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Ken Krimstein: ‘I wanted to look at Hannah from the other end of the telescope.’

The New Yorker cartoonist talks about Hannah Arendt on the page and stage

Mar 17 • Sanders Isaac Bernstein

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