Recent presentations, publications, appointments and honors include the following: ...

Ibn Arabi explains that Nizam, representing divinity, cannot be understood through orthodox dogma but through love alone. Her solitary chamber, he clarifies, is actually the human heart. He also ...

Even Alfred, Lord Tennyson was young once. You wouldn’t know it from the photos, thanks to which he is “enshrined in the national memory” as a “Victorian bard,” face swallowed by “a tremendous beard,” ...

If that seems a surprising subject, I should mention that I’m dealing with two books: ‘Goethe is Back’ by Nicole Simon, and ‘Prostitution’ by Bettina Flitner, photo-based publications which arrived ...

How hard-boiled language lessons from Adrienne, the motorcycle-riding author of a series of 1970s language books, turned a homebody into an explorer. By Mary Bergman “The whole world comes to ...

Our commitment is to champion German in schools across the UK, ensuring that students are not only linguistically adept but also culturally competent and economically competitive in a globalised ...

Judith Chernaik’s idea to feature verse in subway cars has transformed the morning commutes of millions worldwide. Forty years ago, Judith Chernaik had the idea to put poems in the Underground, London ...

Join Goethe-Institut Houston and our local partners at Dallas Goethe Center and Southern Methodist University for On the Road: Readings with Young German Writers. Organized by the Goethe-Institut, in ...

Thomas Mann and the Making of The Magic MountainMorten Hoi Jensen, Yale University Press, £22THIS is a whole new genre – a kind of Netflix-style academic book which reads scenically yet delivers a ...

He is desperate to be taken seriously in the race to succeed California Governor Gavin Newsom. But long before he got into politics, US Representative Eric Swalwell was a wannabe campus radical who ...