Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin begins in Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different ways
Goethe, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Tolstoy, Einstein - all praised the writings of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799), a mathematician, physicist and astronomer by profes
A new collection of poems by Michael Hofmann—his first in twenty yearsMichael Hofmann is renowned as one of our most brilliant critics and translators; that he is also regarded as among our most respe
An adventure with a roving genius of literary criticismMichael Hofmann—poet, translator, and intellectual vagabond—has established himself as one of the keenest critics of contemporary literature. Saf
A number of the poems in this collection by Michael Hofmann show him returning to the subject of his father, the German novelist Gert Hofmann, whose relationship with his son was also the principal su
A Poetry Book Society recommendationArranged in three parts - the first concerning other people's lives, the second autobiographical, the third to do with the poet's travels in Mexico - Corona, Coro
A new selection of essays from Michael Hofmann - one of our most exceptional critics of contemporary literature. In essays on art that are themselves works of art, Hofmann's agile and brilliant mind e
'You move the fifty-seven muscles it takes to smile,' Hofmann writes in a poem whose subject is sexual tension - and immediately the reader recognises a world in which emotions are not the usual po
Rilke, Sachs, Brecht, Celan: Germany has produced some of the giants of 20th-century European poetry. In this new selection, complete with many new translations, Michael Hofmann guides us through the
The first poem in Gottfried Benn's first book, Morgue (1912) - written in an hour, published in a week, and notorious ever after, or so the poet claimed - with its scandalous closing image of an aster
This collection of poetry ranges from one-horse Mexican towns to the beach at Thorpeness. By the author of "Acrimony", which was a Poetry Book Society choice, and "Nights in the Iron Hotel".
Acrimony touches on personal and political watersheds and examines various kinds of patrimony. It is characterized by a drastic honesty, and rhythmic force.
Michael Hofmann's poems have been widely admired, notably for their gift of compressed and pointed reportage, and for the collision course of registers that they characteristically exhibit. His subjec
An anthology of signature works by the influential author of such acclaimed volumes as Nights in the Iron Hotel and Corona, Corona includes intimate and unsparing pieces that weigh his experiences in
