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Join author Michelle Young for a lecture at Neue Galerie New York on April 9, 2026 at 6:30 p.m. Her talk, "Rose Valland, The Art Spy" will present the story of Rose Valland, who maintained her curatorial position at the Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris during WWII. Young will discuss Valland's meticulous records of the artworks stolen from the collection, which were used to aid in their recovery post-war. Register HereBy Michelle Young A riveting and stylish saga set in Paris during World War II, The Art Spy uncovers how an unlikely heroine infiltrated the Nazi leadership to save the cultural legacy of the West. On August 25, 1944, Rose Valland, a woman of quiet daring, found herself in a desperate position. From the windows of her beloved Jeu de Paume museum, where she had worked and ultimately spied, she could see the battle to liberate Paris thundering around her. The Jeu de Paume, co-opted by Nazi leadership, was now the Germans' final line of defense. Would the museum curator be killed before she could tell the truth--a story that would mean nothing less than saving humanity's cultural inheritance? Based on troves of previously undiscovered documents, The Art Spy chronicles the brave actions of the key Resistance spy in the heart of the Nazi's art looting headquarters in the French capital. A veritable female Monuments Man, Valland has, until now, been written out of the annals, despite bearing witness to history's largest art theft. While Hitler was amassing stolen art for his future Führermuseum, Valland, his undercover adversary, secretly worked to stop him. At every stage of World War II, Valland was front and center. She came face to face with Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, passed crucial information to the Resistance network, put herself deliberately in harm's way to protect the museum and her staff, and faced death during the last hours of Liberation Day. She also singlehandedly provided information to stop the last train of looted artworks--bearing paintings by Picasso, Monet, Cezanne, Gauguin, Braque, Degas, Modigliani, and Toulouse-Lautrec--from leaving France. Vivid and atmospheric, The Art Spy moves from the glittering days of pre-War Paris, home to geniuses of modern culture, including Picasso, Josephine Baker, Coco Chanel, Le Corbusier, and Frida Kahlo, through the tension-riddled cities and resorts of Europe on the eve of war, to the harrowing years of the Nazi occupation of France when brave people such as Valland risked everything to fight monstrous evil. In the spirit of Hidden Figures, with the sweeping narrative of The Rape of Europa and the depth of The Resistance Quartet, The Art Spy is an extraordinary tale of a female hero whose courage and tenacity in a time of violence and terror is an inspiration for us all. Hardcover400 pagesHarper Collins, 20256 x 1.5 x 9 inchesISBN 9780063295896Art History, Restitution

The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland

By Philippe Thiebaut Gustav Klimt’s visionary talent comes alive in this sumptuous book that features 90 impeccably reproduced works including 6 stunningly detailed fold-out spreads. This stunning volume offers readers an unparalleled opportunity to explore Klimt’s artistry through iconic works such as The Kiss, The Three Ages of Woman, Judith I, and Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. These large-scale fold-outs reveal intricate details, transforming the book into an immersive journey through Klimt’s extraordinary use of color, pattern, and ornamentation. Philippe Thiébaut’s insightful text incorporates the latest research on Klimt and the historical context of his work, adding depth and perspective. Elegantly designed with a canvas cover, colored edges, and exceptional production quality, the book showcases Klimt’s groundbreaking vision with remarkable clarity. From the golden brilliance of Hope II to the ethereal beauty of Water Serpents I, each page invites readers to explore the textures and emotional resonance that define his style. With its thoughtful design and captivating imagery, this volume brings Klimt’s artistic world to life, illustrating how he transformed portraiture and landscapes into striking symbolic masterpieces. Perfect for both devoted fans and those discovering Klimt for the first time, it offers an essential and unforgettable look at one of Modernism’s most celebrated figures. Hardcover176 pagesPrestel, 20258.75 x 11.75 inchesISBN 9783791393995Monograph

Klimt: The Bigger Picture

A high-quality blank sketchbook with sprayed edges and cloth-bound cover will delight artists and art lovers alike. Crafted for artists and admirers of fine art, this refined blank sketchbook showcases on its cover a delicate detail from Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss. Inside, the pages are high-quality, unruled paper, providing a pristine canvas for sketches, drawings, or notes. The edges of the pages are sprayed, adding an extra touch of elegance to this already exquisite package. This sketchbook seamlessly blends artistic inspiration with practicality, making it an elegant and useful tool for creative minds, especially those who appreciate Klimt’s work and want to be inspired by his artistry every time they open to a new page. Its luxurious design makes it a perfect gift for art lovers, adding a touch of sophistication to their collection of art supplies. Hardcover128 pagesPrestel, 20256.5 x 0.68 x 9.25 inchesISBN 9783791391885Art Supplies, Sketchbook

The Kiss: Gustav Klimt Artist's Sketchbook

Original Price: $26.99 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS "All Quiet on the Western Front" was the focus of our Literatur Café event in January 2026. To buy tickets to future events and find out more, please visit our Programs page here.By Erich Maria RemarqueTranslated by Kurt Beals An immediate sensation when it was published in 1929, Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front has sold more than twenty million copies worldwide since then, making it the best-selling German novel of all time. Its impact is indisputable: it has been adapted for film, television, and other media; has influenced all subsequent works of war literature; and has been taught in high school and college classes ever since. Until now, one translation—published in 1929, and very much a product of its time—has introduced most readers in English to Remarque's wrenching portrait of the horrors of trench warfare. Now, nearly a century later, renowned translator Kurt Beals recaptures the energy and descriptive force of the German original, rendering Remarque's distinctly terse, telegraphic prose into a contemporary idiom, conveying for a new generation the immediacy and intensity of this classic novel. Hardcover240 pagesLiveright Publishing, 20255.8 x 0.9 x 8.6 inchesISBN 9781324006930Literature, Historical Fiction

All Quiet on the Western Front [Hardcover]

by Hans Christian Adam “It would be only a slight exaggeration to say that photographers in the know have been waiting for this book.” ―The New York Times German photography pioneer Karl Blossfeldt (1865–1932) photographed plants so beautifully, and with such originality, that his work transcends the medium itself. Over more than 30 years, he took thousands of photographs, revealing a formally rigorous talent whose precision and dedication bridge the 19th- and 20th-century worlds of image-making and bring a distinctly sculptural aspect to a firmly two-dimensional art form. Beautifully but starkly composed against plain cardboard backgrounds, Blossfeldt’s images, relying on a northern light for their sense of volume, reveal nothing of the man but everything of themselves. They are still life's, piercingly final statements on their subject, and have endured owing to their aesthetics and the ongoing fascination of students and photographers. Like their maker, they are quietly and lastingly effective. Hardcover512 pagesTaschen America Llc, 20246.1 x 8.5 inches ISBN 9783836598514Monographs, Photography

Karl Blossfeldt: The Complete Published Work. 40th Ed.

Edited with text by Megan Fontanella. Foreword by Mariët Westermann. Text by Victoria Horrocks, Isabelle Jansen, Iris Müller-Westermann, Dorothy Price. A new look at a vanguard modernist artist who reimagined the still life, landscape and portrait genres This landmark publication coincides with the major Guggenheim New York exhibition of works by the remarkable German Expressionist Gabriele Münter. Münter’s painting practice between 1908 and 1920 is the central focus of the exhibition and accompanying book. The study also illuminates her lesser-known later work and includes significant examples of her photography taken during earlier extensive travels in the United States. Münter was notably a cofounder of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a loose and transnational confederation of progressive artists and other creatives, with whom she probed the expressive potential of color and the symbolic resonance of forms. Her introspective portraits during World War II capture the “new woman” and explore questions of gender identity. Highlighting more than 90 paintings, drawings and photographs, this publication not only traces Münter’s pioneering and understudied practice but also challenges accepted historical narratives that have tended to sideline women artists. Reproductions of archival material appear alongside choice selections of the artist's sketches, prints and reverse glass paintings. Thematic texts by renowned scholars explore identity, place, belonging and the embodied experience of modernist women artists during this period. Gabriele Münter (1877–1962) was at the forefront of the German avant-garde in the early 20th century and exhibited extensively at galleries and salons throughout Europe during her lifetime. Along with her artistic colleague and one-time partner, Vasily Kandinsky, Münter was a founder of the influential Expressionist group of artists, Der Blaue Reiter. Hardcover176 pagesGuggenheim Museum, 20258.75 x 10.75 inchesISBN 9780892075690 Monographs

Gabriele Münter: Contours of a World

By Sally CarsonPreface by Laura Freeman Crooked Cross describes, through the eyes of one ordinary family, the Nazis’ growth in power between December 1932 and August 1933. It is extraordinarily prescient, anticipating all the horrors they were about to inflict on the world, and in this respect it joins a small group of novels, PB no. 39 Manja and PB no. 136 The Oppermanns among them, which were written to try to alert the world to what was happening. The main focus of the novel is on disaffected German youth: it shows with great subtlety that by the early 1930s there was huge unemployment, and a corresponding feeling of futility, and that what the Nazis did so skillfully was to provide a sense of purpose. Crooked Cross is an incisive account on why some young men who feel disaffected, lost or ignored turn towards authoritarian governments. Hardcover380 pagesPersephone Press, 2025Originally published in 19345.51 x 1.1 x 7.48 inchesISBN 9781910263426Literature

Crooked Cross

By Joseph RothTranslated by David Le Vay and Beatrice Musgrave. "One of the greatest writers of the first half of the tormented 20th century" —Simon Schama "A master of German prose… Roth understood the subtler acts of violence that war enacts upon the mind" —Spectator At the close of the Great War, a captured Austrian soldier escapes Siberia and sets off in search of his fiancée, her photograph sewn into the lining of his coat. But the old order has vanished, and he is swept along on the current of revolution: first surrendering to his love for a Red Army beauty, then drifting phantom-like through Europe’s cities. Here, Joseph Roth tells one of his most personal stories—that of a man cast adrift in a changed world. Paperback176 pagesPushkin Press, 20245.1 x 0.51 x 7.76 inches ISBN 9781805331216Literature

Flight Without End

By Irmgard Keun Translated by Anthea Bell Depicting a young woman's life in Nazi Germany, a masterpiece from the author of Child of All Nations "I cannot think of anything else that conjures up so powerfully the atmosphere of a nation turned insane" —Sunday Telegraph Arrested in Cologne for remarking that the Fuhrer looked sweaty, nineteen-year-old Sanna has fled to Frankfurt. But her troubles are far from over. Her best friend Gerti has fallen for a Jewish boy, her brother writes books that have been blacklisted, and her own aunt could turn her in to the authorities at any moment. Darkly humorous and utterly heart rending, this gripping novel vividly captures the terror and hysteria of pre-war Nazi Germany. Paperback 144 pagesPenguin Classics, 20207.8 x 5.04 inchesISBN 9780241391822Literature, Fiction

After Midnight

By Larry Wolff "[A] masterful intellectual history of the province."—Timothy Snyder, New York Review of Books "Wolff's way of telling the story of how the idea of Galicia evolved throughout the nineteenth century is a dense narrative in which a variety of sources are related or juxtaposed to create multiple contexts—historical, political, social, intellectual, cultural. . . The scope and quality of Larry Wolff's scholarship makes The Idea of Galicia an impressive achievement. Not only has the author made a major contribution to the history of Galicia and to historiography, but he has also set a high standard for historical writing."—Jolanta Pekacz, Canadian Journal of History Galicia was created at the first partition of Poland in 1772 and disappeared in 1918. Yet, in slightly over a century, the idea of Galicia came to have meaning for both the peoples who lived there and the Habsburg government that ruled it. Indeed, its memory continues to exercise a powerful fascination for those who live in its former territories and for the descendants of those who emigrated out of Galicia. The idea of Galicia was largely produced by the cultures of two cities, Lviv and Cracow. Making use of travelers' accounts, newspaper reports, and literary works, Wolff engages such figures as Emperor Joseph II, Metternich, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Ivan Franko, Stanisław Wyspiański, Tadeusz "Boy" Żeleński, Isaac Babel, Martin Buber, and Bruno Schulz. He shows the exceptional importance of provincial space as a site for the evolution of cultural meanings and identities, and analyzes the province as the framework for non-national and multi-national understandings of empire in European history. Paperback 504 pagesStanford University Press; 1st edition, 20126 x 1.25 x 9 inchesISBN 9780804783125European History

The Idea of Galicia: History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture

By Bernadette Wörndl The coffee houses in early 20th-century Vienna were the second living room for artists, intellectuals, and dessert lovers of all kinds. This was a place to relax; discuss; and, above all, indulge! Amid this sophisticated atmosphere, confectioner Therese Schulz pampered guests of the former Vienna Grand Hotel with her sweet craftsmanship—and meticulously documented her recipes. One hundred years later, family members rediscovered these records in the attic and entrusted them to the expert hands of recipe developer Bernadette Wörndl, who brings these recipes to life on the page today. The result is this unique baking book, with over 75 divine confectionery recipes. From Viennese classics like Vanillekipferl (vanilla crescent cookies) and Sachertorte (rich chocolate cake) to nostalgic delicacies like marmalade Swiss rolls or a strawberry cream torte, this book will delight lovers of Austrian sweets and pastries. With a mix of atmospheric recipe pictures, excerpts from Therese’s original recipe book, and nostalgic historic photography, The Viennese Bakery is a delicious, inspiring, and enticing culinary flight of fancy. Hardcover224 pagesDK, 20267.5 x 9.8 inchesISBN 9798217305797Cookbooks, Viennese Baking

Viennese Bakery: Classic Desserts from Vienna's Café Culture

By Elisabeth de WaalPreface by Edmund de Waal Unpublished during Elisabeth de Waal's lifetime, The Exiles Return is set in Occupied Vienna in 1954-5. It describes five people who grew up there before the war and have come back to see if they can re-establish the life they have lost. As Edmund de Waal writes in his Preface about his grandmother's highly autobiographical novel, she "was Viennese and this is a novel about being Viennese. As such, it is a novel about exile and about return, about the push and pull of love, anger and despair about a place which is part of your identity." With immaculate precision and sensitivity, de Waal, an exile herself, captures a city rebuilding and relearning its identity, and the people who have to do the same. Mesmerizing and tragic, de Waal has written a masterpiece of European literature, an artifact revealing a moment in our history, clear as a snapshot, but timeless as well. Hardcover328 pagesPersephone Press, 20255.51 x 1.1 x 7.48 inchesISBN 9781903155929Literature, Viennese Occupation

The Exiles Return

By Stefan ZweigTranslated by Anthea Bell, Eden Paul, Cedar Paul "The fates of men are nothing to the universe, Zweig tells us – but he makes us care"—Sunday Times "Thoughtful, highly observant, and humane" —Guardian Five tales of family breakdown, political struggle, and monomaniacal obsession from one of the defining voices of the European Jewish diaspora. Moving back through time from the First World War to Ancient Rome, these stories play on the tension between religion, society and individual with masterful irony. We encounter heroes and bookworms, visionaries and gadabouts, patriarchs and rebels – united across the centuries by faith, and by the intensity with which they live and die, their individual passions blazing out against the forces of history. Includes: "Buchmendel," "Downfall of the Heart," "The Miracles of Life," "In the Snow," and "The Buried Candelabrum" Paperback288 pagesPushkin Press, 2025 5.07 x 7.78 inchesISBN 9781805331834Literature

The Last Miracle: Jewish Stories

By Sheridan Le Fanu "Succeeds in inspiring a mysterious terror better than any other writer"—M.R. James In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing father for company. Until one moonlit night, a horse-drawn carriage crashes into view, carrying an unexpected guest – the beautiful Carmilla. So begins a feverish friendship between Laura and her mysterious, entrancing companion. But as Carmilla becomes increasingly strange and volatile, prone to eerie nocturnal wanderings, Laura finds herself tormented by nightmares and growing weaker by the day… Pre-dating Dracula by twenty-six years, Carmilla is the original vampire story, steeped in sexual tension and gothic romance. Paperback160 pagesPushkin Press, 20255.07 x 0.5 x 7.8 inchesISBN 9781805332121Literature, Fiction

Carmilla: The Dark Sapphic Romance That Inspired Dracula [Paperback]

By Ernst Toller Translated by Drew Lichtenberg Hoppla, We're Alive is a landmark drama of the Weimar Republic and one of the founding works of what would become known as a powerful portrait of a fragile democracy at war with itself, inevitably corrupted from within by the rising forces of capitalism and fascism. Toller's main character Karl Thomas, a participant in the failed Communist revolution of 1919, has spent eight years in a mental hospital. Released into the much-changed Germany of 1927, Thomas encounters each of his former comrades in a world where all of the lessons of the first World War and the revolution seem to have been forgotten. Building to a powerful and tragic climax, Toller’s play has lost none of its power to shock, provoke, and awaken readers. Paperback86 pagesBerlinica Publishing, 20195 x 8 inchesISBN 9783960260424Theater

Hoppla, We're Alive!

By Paul KleeTexts by Michael Baumgartner, Dr. Christine Hopfengart, Fabienne Eggelhöfer, Osamu Okuda Back in print, the most authoritative overview on the beloved Bauhaus Renaissance man and pioneer of abstraction, the first artist to "take a line for a walk" Paul Klee (1879-1940) is one of the most important representatives of modern art. His oeuvre is as universal as it is individual, standing tall among all of the currents and "isms" of his day. His overwhelming body of paintings, drawings, and other visual works; his letters, journal entries, and, last but not least, his teaching notes form the background for this pointed depiction of the life and work of the meditative artist and visual thinker. This richly illustrated volume traces Klee's eventful biography, ranging from his artistic beginnings with caricature-like drawings and nudes, his encounter with the avant-garde and the famous watercolors from his journey to Tunisia, the abstract color compositions from the Bauhaus era, to the mysterious, inventive images of his last years in Bern. Hardcover344 pages, 488 photosHatje Cantz, 202010.1 x 11.7 inchesISBN 9783775747196Monographs

Paul Klee: Life and Work

By Otfried Preußler Translated by Anthea Bell Illustrated by F.J. Tripp The Little Ghost is a well-known German children’s book by famous writer Otfried Preußler. In this edition, readers of all ages can follow a funny story about a very friendly little ghost and his friend Schuhu, the eagle owl. The little ghost lived in an old oak chest in a cobwebbed corner of an attic in an old castle. He was one of those harmless little ghosts who haunt places by night, and never hurt anyone unless they are provoked. He enjoyed haunting, but he did so wish he could see the town by day instead of by night. Then one day it happened. But a town by daylight is no place for a little ghost… Paperback137 pagesThienemann Verlag, 20015.6 x 0.6 x 8 inchesISBN 9783522174404Children's Books

The Little Ghost

By Helen Wolff and Marion Detjen Translated by Tristram Wolff and Jefferson Chase A lush autobiographical story of young love, 1930s Côte d’Azur, and rising fascism in Nazi Germany—by the famed publisher of Calvino, Pasternak, and Gunter Grass “Wolff may not have wanted her book to be seen by outside eyes, but her summer of love is a tale so rich, evocative and forbidden, it is irresistible.”—British Vogue In a giddy rush, a young woman and her older lover leave 1930s Berlin for a summer vacation on the Côte d’Azur. As they drive along stunning bays, linger over sumptuous meals and steal kisses on the street, they seem marvelously in sync, each enchanted by the other. But as she observes her lover’s wandering eye and rigid world-view, the woman decides to leave in search of a cottage of her own near Saint-Tropez. There, amid the vineyards and lemon trees, she will forge startling new connections and pass an unforgettable summer of independence and freedom. Background for Love is an irresistible autobiographical novel by the great publisher Helen Wolff, who together with her husband, Kurt Wolff, Kafka’s first publisher, set up Pantheon Books in America after fleeing Nazi Germany. In the fascinating companion essay, historian Marion Detjen, the author’s great-niece, delves into Helen’s path to writing and the autobiographical context of the novel in her early life with Kurt. Helen is remembered as a great publisher, a multilingual reader who brought authors such as Italo Calvino and Georges Simenon to English-speaking readers – only now is her own reputation as a writer coming to the fore. Recently recovered from the archive and translated for the 1st time by Tristram Wolff, the author’s grandson, this is a a fast-paced, highly intense, and emotionally gripping novel of passion and self-discovery. Paperback256 pagesPushkin Press Classics, 20255.06 x 7.76 inches ISBN 9781805330745Literature, Historical Fiction

Background for Love

Edited by Astrid Ihle, Julia Nebenführ, and René Zechlin See the global south between 1914 and the 1970s through the perspective of women pioneers and their new artistic development: geometric abstraction. Artists like Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Sonia Delaunay played an essential part in the development of geometric abstraction, a form of non-representational art. We Will Go Right Up to the Sun presents an overview of the evolution of geometric abstract art and takes into account, in addition to the applied arts, the female perspective of the Global South with promising new discoveries. Geometric abstraction emerged around the turn of the last century from an attitude that was permeated by renewal, utopia, and resistance, and that aimed at the unity of art and life. Colorful, geometric, and highly attractive, this comprehensive view of the art produced between 1914 and the 1970s is lavishly illustrated and relates the narrative from a female, global, historical, and contemporary perspective, revealing the dense network between women artists, gallerists, and critics. Hardcover288 pages9.45 x 11.42 inchesISBN 9783777444277Art History, Movements

We Will Go Right Up to the Sun: Female Pioneers of Geometric Abstraction

By Walter SernerIntroduction and translation by Erik Butler "These ‘outlandish’ stories relate casual pranks and complicated grifts that are by turns comic and calamitous: some read like games of Cluedo with the players amped up on coke, while others suggest scenes pulled from a film noir, a genre they anticipate by twenty years."―London Review of Books, Hal Foster "At the Blue Monkey offers pieces of a life that don’t fit together, its mystery never solved. There’s no closure to speak of, but if it raises any questions about the nature of fiction and life, its job is done." ―Spectrum Culture, Pat Padua Walter Serner’s first story collection, published in German in 1921, brought to narrative form the philosophy of his earlier Dada manifesto/handbook, Last Loosening: A Handbook for the Con Artist & Those Who Wish to Be One—life is a con job and demands the skills of a swindler. With its depiction of a world of appearances in which nothing can be trusted, At the Blue Monkey helped establish the ex-doctor and renounced Dadaist as a literary “Maupaussant of crime” and offers in this first English translation 33 stories of criminals, con artists and prostitutes engaged in varieties of financial insolvency, embezzlement, sexual hijinks, long and short cons, and dalliances with venereal diseases and drugs. Told in a baroque, sometimes baffling poetry of underworld slang in an urban world of bars and rent-a-rooms, these short tales are presented to the reader like so many three-card Montes in which readers come to realize too late that they may well themselves be the literary mark. Paperback192 pagesWakefield Press, 20205.5 x 8 inchesISBN 9781939663467Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

At The Blue Monkey: 33 Outlandish Stories

By Hermann Hesse “Hesse is a writer whose peculiar vision is worth inspecting. His world is shadowy and close to areas of the heart that will probably never see light. But his vision is a rare one, as commendable for its humane solicitude as for its strangeness and unearthly color.” —National Review "What Catcher in the Rye has come to mean for America's younger generation, Demian proved to be for Germany's early post-WWI youth. . . . A quite believable, fascinating, moving portrait of youth." —Kirkus Reviews An acclaimed, influential, and visionary novel from Hermann Hesse, one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Demian tells the dramatic story of Emil Sinclair. Docile and unquestioning, Emil follows a precious schoolmate—the charismatic Max Demian—on a shocking decent into a secret and dangerous world of petty crime and revolt against convention. And it is there in the shadows that a formerly complacent and uncomplicated young man achieves a miraculous awakening to adulthood. The novel includes an introduction by Thomas Mann. Paperback 176 pages Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 19995 x 8 inches ISBN 9780060931919 Literature

Demian (Perennial Classics)

By Susanne RebscherIllustrated by Annabelle Von Sperber This delightful and engaging introduction to the history of art for children features intricate illustrations with hidden details. Children love to pore over detailed illustrations, especially when they contain hidden elements for them to find. This endlessly entertaining book opens up entire historic periods to young readers in double page spreads that are teeming with life and meticulously drawn to teach them about artistic traditions. Each spread represents a moment in history, capturing how art was integrated into daily life and illustrating contemporary styles, tools, and mediums. Children will learn about cave paintings and what humans used for light and why they painted so many animals and hunting scenes. They’ll find themselves in Ancient Greece, where deities watch over a busy marketplace in front of the Parthenon. A cross-section of a medieval monastery, Leonardo’s workshop, and a collection of 19th century artists painting in nature are just a few more of the examples, which take readers through to the present day. Featuring additional information including facts and anecdotes that enhance the experience of learning, a book to turn to again and again, Where’s the Artist? provides an ingenious and beautifully executed tutorial on art history that will captivate children of any age. Hardcover32 pages Age range: 4-8 years 9 x 12.5 inches Prestel Junior, 2026ISBN 9783791376455Children's, Art History

Where's The Artist?: From Cave Paintings to Modern Art: A Look and Find Book

By Brothers GrimmIllustrated by Sandra Dieckmann Dieckmann’s use of rich, saturated colors creates an enchanting atmosphere—deep forest greens, cool night blues, and warm golden yellows bring the scenes to life. . . . A beautifully illustrated and thoroughly modern fairy-tale anthology.—Kirkus Reviews Seeming at once fresh and classic, this collection of 22 handsomely framed and illustrated Brothers Grimm tales offers a mix of popular and less-familiar choices.—Booklist Twenty classic stories get a gently modernized twist in Sandra Dieckmann’s beautifully illustrated collection of treasured and lesser-known fairy tales. From internationally acclaimed creator Sandra Dieckmann comes a captivating collection of Grimms’ fairy tales, accessibly written and illustrated with an eye to inclusivity. Including much-loved stories like “Rapunzel” and “Sleeping Beauty” as well as more obscure gems from the author’s childhood in northern Germany, this splendidly illustrated gift book of twenty tales is poised to charm readers of all ages. Enchanted forests, wild animals, powerful princesses, and brave heroes all reflect a lightly modern take in this Grimms’ collection to be cherished by all. Hardcover176 pagesCandlewick, 20259.06 x 10.63 inchesISBN 9781536236491Age range: 4-8 yearsChildren's Books, Illustrated Stories

Grimms' Fairy Tales

Edited by Przemyslaw Strozek, Rudolf Fischer, Antonella B. Meloni, & David WittinghoferWith Contributions by Meghan Forbes A stylish, rigorous documentation of the cross-cultural exchange between America and Europe during the Roaring Twenties Parallel to the avant-garde movements in Europe of the 1920s, unprecedented economic prosperity developed in the United States. In Europe, "America" became a cultural concept that emblematized an urban lifestyle, efficient labor systems and low-threshold entertainment. Certain exports, such as jazz, were embraced, while others, such as Taylorism, met with heavy criticism. In turn, European art and its new movements, such as Dadaism, Futurism and Constructivism, attracted both reverence and disdain in the United States. The American public learned about these cultural experiments through magazines such as The Little Review. Through expository texts and reproductions of poems, artwork, posters, sheet music and magazines, Modern Times documents the transatlantic exchange that occurred between the European avant-garde and American popular culture during the storied Roaring Twenties. The volume identifies the means through which ideas and phenomena were disseminated abroad and traces their respective receptions. Paperback246 pages | 150 color & b/w illustrationsSpector Books, 20268.27 x 0.87 x 11.02 inchesISBN 9783959058865Mixed Media, International Arts

Modern Times: Transantlantic Encounters in the 1920s

By Kerstin Drechsel, Diana Kopka, Florence Thurmes, Sina Tonn Follows the role of angst in Edvard Munch’s unprecedented body of work and its enduring influence on contemporary art. Angst. Everyone knows it and fears it—regardless of cultural and social background—yet it is also essential to life, as a driving force and source of energy. Hardly any painter has captured this aspect of the human condition so powerfully as Edvard Munch, the artist whose unique body of work leaves no one unmoved. A pioneer of modernism, Munch was able to address the raw, wild, and immediate aspects of human existence. In his works, he places human feelings and a trenchant critique of civilization at the center. This comprehensive and opulent document of a universal emotion demonstrates the importance of the Norwegian master in all his facets. Paperback with flaps 336 pages | 170 illustrations Text in German and English Hirmer Publishers, 20267.5 x 10 inchesISBN 9783777446486 Monographs

Edvard Munch: Angst

Kurt Tucholsky Ausgewählt von Marie Bernhard. Illustriert von Katrin Stangl Es ist ein fremder Hauch auf mir? Was soll das heißen – es ist ein fremder Hauch auf mir? Auf mir ist kein fremder Hauch. Gib mal’n Kuß auf Lottchen … In dem heiter-maliziösen Tucholsky-Lesebuch beichtet Lottchen einen Geliebten, es werden Ratschläge an einen schlechten Redner erteilt oder final die Frage geklärt, wo die Löcher aus dem Käse herkommen. Was man alles eventuell noch mal gebrauchen kann in diesem Leben und wie es anfühlt, mit einer großen Frau liiert zu sein. Und ein Gratisrezept gegen die Grippe gibt es obendrein. Das alles garniert mit kongenialen Illustrationen von Katrin Stangl. Natürlich war ich da mit einem Mann. Na, soll ich vielleicht mit einer Krankenschwester ins Theater? Lieber Daddy, das war ganz harmlos, vollkommen harmlos … Fester Einband123 SeitenInsel Verlag GmbH, 202512 x 1.6 x 18.4 cmISBN 9783458195535Literature, Books in German

Gib mal'n Kuß auf Lottchen

Von Sandra Richter and Anna Kinder »Der Dichter und seine floralen Vorlieben, kundig erklärt, liebevoll illustriert und mit klugen Analysen in Beziehung gesetzt vor allem zu seinen Gedichten. « -Tilman Krause, WELT AM SONNTAG »Einen interessanten, nicht jedem bekannten Aspekt von Rilkes Leben hat Sandra Richter in einem ... Buch beleuchtet – einem lesenswerten[:] Rilke als Gärtner.«-Dieter Kaltwasser, General Anzeiger Bonn Die erste Einführung in Rilkes Pflanzen- und Blumenkosmos mit vielen bisher unbekannten Texten und Bildern Es ist »die Liebe […,] die Blumen zwischen die Seiten« der Bücher legt, schrieb Rilke Ende November 1904 seiner Ersatzmutter, der berühmten schwedischen Pädagogin Ellen Key, und betonte weiter, dass diese »immer an dieser Stelle bleiben sollen«. Zeitlebens verzierte er seine Bücher mit solchen Zeichen der Liebe, bedichtete Blumen, die ihm als Lebens- und Liebeszeichen galten, entwickelte, pflegte und nutzte seinen eigenen Garten in Schloss Muzot, seinem letzten Lebens- und Arbeitsort. Rilkes Auseinandersetzung mit der Pflanzenwelt zeigt ihn als Gärtner im doppelten Sinne: Als botanisierenden Autor und als tatsächlichen Gärtner – als Pflanzensammler, Blumeneinkäufer, botanisch informierten Naturbeobachter und, nach Verfertigung seines großen Spätwerks, als tätigen Gärtner. Der 2022 durch das Deutsche Literaturarchiv Marbach erworbene private Nachlass Rilkes bezeugt erstmals umfassend die Blumen- und Naturbegeisterung des Autors, kenntnisreich kommentiert von Sandra Richter, Autorin der großen Rilke-Biographie im Insel Verlag, und Anna Kinder. Fester Einband110 Seiten, Mit zahlreichen AbbildungenInsel Verlag GmbH, 20257.2 x 4.8 inchesISBN 9783458195542 Literature, Books in German

Rilke als Gartner

Von Rainer Maria Rilke Rainer Maria Rilkes Gärten sind »von Königen gebaut«. Sie sind still und hoheitsvoll, wirken wie »nie betreten«. Mit blumenbegrenzten weiten Rasenflächen, Alleen, gestalteten Bäumen, Kieswegen, Palästen und Pavillons, mit Bänken und Treppen aus Stein, Sonnenuhren und Fontänen und einer Überfülle an Blumen gleichen sie ausgebreiteten Prunkgewändern. Ihr eigentlicher Zauber aber liegt in ihrer beständigen Wandlung. Rilke preist das unauflösliche Miteinander von Dasein und Vergänglichkeit, jenes »Äußerste von Sein und Neigen«, mit zärtlichen, betörenden Worten. Die Auswahl Marianne Beucherts lädt zu einem Gang durch diese Gärten ein. Zwölf farbige Park- und Blumenaufnahmen von Marion Nickig ergänzen den Band. Hardcover77 pagesText in GermanInsel Verlag, 202512.1 x 0.8 x 18.5 cmISBN 9783458645078German Poetry

In einem fremden Park

Original Price: $60 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS By Alston Purvis and Cees W. De Jong This vibrant book tells the history of the Modernist design movement and how it completely revolutionized graphic design. Graphic Design as an artistic genre wasn't universally accepted until the early 20th century. This striking book focuses on the pivotal years of 1919-1933 to show how fifty artists redefined the field and helped create modern graphic design. Art historian and graphic artist Alston Purvis provides a concise and engaging overview of the dawn of modern graphic design and the artistic possibilities that were laid bare in a seismically shifting Europe. He explores how a variety of burgeoning and established movements contributed to the innovations of graphic design such as the German Dadaists, the Bauhaus School, and the European avant-garde artists. He looks at how groundbreaking trends in typography, the rise of consumerism, and a new focus on schools of graphic design combined to create a new language of design that is still in use today. Featuring the designs of 50 pioneering artists, such as Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, and El Lissitzky, this book shows how their work in color, typography, and composition broke conventions and set new standards in a seminal period of graphic design. Hardcover 400 pages Prestel, 2019 8.5 x 1.28 x 11.91 inches ISBN 9783791384856Graphic Design, Typography

The Enduring Legacy of Weimar: Graphic Design & New Typography 1919-1933

By Ken Krimstein Winner of the Bernard J. Brommel Award for Biography & Memoir For Persepolis and Logicomix fans, a New Yorker cartoonist's page-turning graphic biography of the fascinating Hannah Arendt, the most prominent philosopher of the twentieth century. "It's remarkable how lively Krimstein makes thought look in the book . . . cafe society scenes in Weimar Berlin in particular show how propulsive Krimstein's style is, how fluidly he conveys freewheeling conversations, how nimbly he switches gears." —The Chicago Reader "The astounding life of a 20th-century original as told by a skillful cartoonist frolicking in long form . . . A compelling performance with great pacing that makes abstruse political theory both intelligible and memorable." —Kirkus (Starred Review) One of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century and a hero of political thought, the largely unsung and often misunderstood Hannah Arendt is best known for her landmark 1951 book on openness in political life, The Origins of Totalitarianism, which, with its powerful and timely lessons for today, has become newly relevant. She led an extraordinary life. This was a woman who endured Nazi persecution firsthand, survived harrowing "escapes" from country to country in Europe, and befriended such luminaries as Walter Benjamin and Mary McCarthy, in a world inhabited by everyone from Marc Chagall and Marlene Dietrich to Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. A woman who finally had to give up her unique genius for philosophy, and her love of a very compromised man - the philosopher and Nazi-sympathizer Martin Heidegger - for what she called "love of the world." Compassionate and enlightening, playful and page-turning, New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein's The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt is a strikingly illustrated portrait of a complex, controversial, deeply flawed, and irrefutably courageous woman whose intelligence and "virulent truth telling" led her to breathtaking insights into the human condition, and whose experience continues to shine a light on how to live as an individual and a public citizen in troubled times. Hardcover240 pagesBloomsbury Publishing, 2018 6.83 x 0.97 x 9.06 inches ISBN 9781635571882Graphic Novel, Literature

The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth

By Ken Krimstein “Clever, charming, amusing, and just plain brilliant. Ken Krimstein is the most inventive graphic biographer on the planet-and certainly the only one who could explain both Einstein and Kafka. A page turner on gravity and relativity!” -KAI BIRD, Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of American Prometheus, the biography that inspired the Oscar-winning film Oppenheimer“For the science-challenged, it comes as a relief and a delight to have gravity and relativity explained in Ken Krimstein's marvelously inventive graphic novel.” ―The New York Sun “[Krimstein] engagingly chronicles a significant time period for both [Einstein and Kafka] . . . A fun, amusing fantasy about an important year in two icons' lives.” ―Kirkus Reviews From the award-winning New Yorker cartoonist, a graphic narrative revealing the pivotal year in Prague when Einstein became “Einstein,” Franz Kafka became “Kafka,” and the world changed forever. During the year that Prague was home to both Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka from 1911-1912, the trajectory of the two men's lives wove together in uncanny ways-as did their shared desire to tackle the world's biggest questions in Europe's strangest city. In stunning words and pictures, Einstein in Kafkaland reveals the untold story of how their worlds wove together in a cosmic battle for new kinds of truth. For Einstein, his lost year in Prague set him on the path to what many consider the greatest scientific discovery of all time, his General Theory of Relativity. And for Kafka, this charmed year was a bridge to writing his first masterpiece, The Judgment. Based on diaries, lectures, letters, and papers from this period amid a planet electrifying itself into modernity, Einstein in Kafkaland brings to life the emergence of a new world where art and science come together in ways we still grapple with today. Hardcover224 pagesBloomsbury, 20246.85 x 9.05 inchesISBN 9781635579536Graphic Novels, Biography

Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up with the Universe

Original Price: $45.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS By Emma Jung Edited by Ann Conrad, Lammers Thomas, Fischer Medea Hoch Translated by Ann Conrad Lammers Alison Kappes A richly illustrated collection of never-before-seen writings and drawings from the notebooks, portfolios, and personal papers of C. G. Jung’s wife and collaborator Emma Jung (1882–1955) was the life and work partner of one of the great intellectual figures of the twentieth century, yet she kept most of her creative and personal life private. Dedicated to the Soul brings together previously unpublished materials from Jung’s private archive, introducing her voice into the literature of the early psychoanalytical movement and revealing a vibrant inner life and a glowing presence that until now was known only to her family and a handful of patients, students, and friends. This fully annotated collection features journal entries, dream accounts, drawings, paintings, and lectures. It sheds new light on Jung as an early collaborator in the creation of analytical psychology who may have originated the concept of the animus, one of C. G. Jung’s central constructs. It paints a riveting portrait of a dynamic woman who, determined to break free of the conventional world of her upbringing, fearlessly interrogated her social environment and developed her own systems of meaning. With introductory essays that chart Jung’s personal, intellectual, and psychological development, Dedicated to the Soul brings the creative work of this boldly imaginative and irreverent spirit to a wider audience and offers new perspectives on the role of women in the early history of analytical psychology. Hardcover432 pagesPrinceton University Press, 20257.8 x 1.3 x 10.3 inchesISBN 9780691253275 Theory, Psychology, History

Dedicated to the Soul: The Writings and Drawings of Emma Jung

By C. G. Jung and Aniela Jaffé In 1957, at the age of eighty-one, C. G. Jung began a collaboration with his student and secretary Aniela Jaffé and the legendary publisher Kurt Wolff on a book about his life. Memories, Dreams, Reflections would become a bestseller, yet it draws from less than half of Jaffé’s original interviews with Jung. Much of the material from these candid, wide-ranging conversations was left on the cutting-room floor. Jung’s Life and Work presents these interviews in their entirety for the first time. Marking the 150th anniversary of Jung’s birth, this new English translation captures the cadence and subtlety of the brilliant psychologist in his own words, giving voice to a thinker and teacher who is by turns witty and intellectually daring but also vulnerable and humbled by the world’s great mysteries. It restores numerous passages that were originally omitted or heavily edited and toned down for publication, “auntified” as Jung himself put it. Taken together, these talks reveal Jung actively discovering meaningful new connections in his life’s work. He shares his impressions of notable figures he encountered throughout his life—such as Sigmund Freud, William James, Albert Einstein, and H. G. Wells—and describes his striking visions, religious and paranormal experiences, and pioneering self-experimentation. Aided by Jaffé’s skillful questioning, Jung reflects on subjects ranging from Christianity and Buddhism and the fate of the West to the experiences that led to the formulation of his signature concepts of the collective unconscious, archetypes, anima and animus, and the shadow as well as on karma, the afterlife, and much more. With an introduction and extensive annotations by acclaimed Jung scholar Sonu Shamdasani that provide invaluable historical perspective, Jung’s Life and Work includes previously unpublished extracts from Jung’s letters and a completely reorganized text. Hardcover456 pagesPrinceton University Press, 20266.22 x 1.34 x 9.21 inchesISBN 9780691193229Psychology, Theory

Jung's Life and Work: Interviews for Memories, Dreams, Reflections

By Theodor FontaneTranslated by Peter James Bowman PERFECT FOR FANS OF JANE AUSTEN: A seamstress and cavalry officer fall in love across class divides in this “sparkling, tender, delicately ironic” portrait of 19th-century Berlin (New York Review of Books). “A joy for its humanity, subtlety and visual immediacy.”—Independent From Germany’s greatest 19th-century novelist, this realist masterpiece interrogates the strict social codes of a rapidly changing era through a wistful struggle between love and obligation. Lene is an orphaned seamstress; Botho is a nobleman and an officer in one of the Prussian army’s most glittering regiments. But despite their differences of class and education, they fall quickly in love, spending a summer together in a clear-eyed, tender love affair before society’s demands force them cruelly apart. Now married to a wealthy cousin, Botho learns years later that Lene too has an opportunity to marry. Her ex-lover must choose between holding on to regret or letting go of the past – along with the possibility of getting Lene herself back. Unusually progressive for literature of the period, this masterwork of Fontane’s portrays a love story that defies class boundaries, full of tender irony and vivid evocations of a quickly expanding Berlin and its bucolic surroundings. Fontane bring sharp psychological insight to his achingly sympathetic portrayal of two lovers torn between their hearts and the obligations of social circumstance. Paperback 208 pages Pushkin Press Classics, 20265.08 x 7.76 inchesISBN 9781805331612Literature

On Tangled Paths

By Peter E. Gordon An accessible and authoritative biography of Walter Benjamin that guides the reader through the complexity of his intellectual legacy and the turbulence of his time Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) is widely considered one of the most creative cultural critics of the twentieth century. Esteemed for his literary acumen and capacious imagination, he developed a unique style of criticism—his friend Hannah Arendt called it pearl-diving—that sought out fragments of redemption in the ruins of bourgeois civilization. Award-winning author Peter E. Gordon tells Benjamin’s story in a vivid and poetic style, inviting the reader to look beyond the image of Benjamin as a tragic figure of German-Jewish history and portraying him as a complex personality of unique and multifaceted gifts. Tracing Benjamin’s life from his Berlin childhood to his Parisian exile, through the romanticism of the youth movements and the conflicts over modernism and Marxism, Gordon brings Benjamin to life. Hardcover224 pages | 8 black and white illustrationsYale University Press, 20265.75 × 8.25 inchesISBN 9780300216868Biography, Philosophy

Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver

By Christopher Long Christopher Long’s latest volume of essays on the prestigious 19th-century architect, essayist and progenitor of modernism. Architectural historian and leading voice on Adolf Loos, Christopher Long returns with another commentary on the Austrian pioneer of modern architecture. Adolf Loos (1870–1933), an opponent of ornamentation on buildings, designed buildings in Vienna that contrasted with the popular Art Nouveau and Secession styles. In this anthology of eight essays, Long takes on the meanings of Loos’ writings and design work, the cultural world in which he was embedded, and how he was regarded by the critics and public. Long exposes and explodes old myths about Loos, fostering in the process a new, brilliant and compelling view of one of modern architecture’s key protagonists. Christopher Long is the author of Adolf Loos on Trial and Essays on Adolf Loos. He is a professor in the Architectural History program at the University of Texas School of Architecture. Softcover 144 pagesKANT, 2024 6.5 x 9 inches ISBN 9788074373954Architecture and Design

Adolf Loos: Meaning, Context, Reception: Essays

Von Rainer Maria Rilke Herausgegeben von Angelika Overath und Manfred Koch. Mit farbigen Abbildungen Wie in einem Paradiesgarten durchstreifen Tiere Rilkes Werk. Da tritt das fabelhafte Einhorn hervor, Delphine springen, Flamingos neigen ihr Haupt, Löwen brüllen, Schwäne gleiten. Hunde allerlei Art schmücken Landgüter oder verwildern in Städten. Der Dichter dreht gestürzte Marienkäfer auf der Fensterbank um, damit sie weiterleben können, und erfährt im Vogelflug seine Idee des »Weltinnenraums«. Auch wenn die Sphäre der Engel unzugänglich bleibt, geben Tiere doch Zeichen einer geheimen All-Verbundenheit der Wesen. Sie werden zu Lebenskomplizen, Echos der Seele. Die Anthologie versammelt Gedichte und Prosatexte aus Rilkes Werken, ergänzt durch ausgesuchte Tierbilder und abgerundet mit einem kundigen Nachwort der Herausgeber. Hardcover111 pages Text in German Insel Verlag, 20254.8 x 0.47 x 7.2 inchesISBN 9783458195498Literature

Rilkes Tiere

By Elisabeth de Waal Anita, who has lived in Austria through the Second World War, comes to live in a large English country house in the early 1950s. She forms a close bond with its elderly owner, Mr Barlow, and another with his grandson Tony. But what does the future hold for any of them, for the house, and for England itself? Paperback322 pagesPersephone Press, 20195.51 x 1.1 x 7.48 inchesISBN 9781910263211 Literature

Milton Place

By Franz KafkaTranslated by Edwin Muir and Willa Muir Trapped in a bureaucratic quagmire, K., a land surveyor, struggles to gain access to the mysterious, impenetrable Castle, a symbol of unassailable authority. His attempts are met with inexplicable delays, administrative hurdles, and a pervasive sense of alienation. Franz Kafka infuses his narrative with existential dread, crafting a story that is both exasperating and amusing yet deeply human. It’s a tale of the individual’s struggle against the overwhelming forces of bureaucracy, power, and the quest for identity in a world that often seems indifferent. Well into the twenty-first century, Kafka’s tale resonates with anyone who has ever felt unheard or lost in a maze of red tape. Published posthumously in 1926, The Castle was first translated into English in 1930 by Edwin and Willa Muir. Although incomplete because of Kafka’s untimely death in 1924, the novel remains a seminal work. Despite Kafka’s instruction to his close friend Max Brod to destroy all unpublished manuscripts after his death, The Castle was preserved and published. The novel stands alongside Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” and The Trial as one of the twentieth century’s most significant and existentially profound absurdist literary contributions. Paperback224 pages Dover Publications, 20255 x 8 inchesISBN 9780486855394Literature

The Castle

By Gabriele TergitTranslated by Sophie Duvernoy "A blend of page-turner and the highest literary quality." ―Der Tagesspiegel "Anyone who reads it will accompany the characters for many decades and take some of them very much to their hearts." ―Berliner Zeitung Three generations of German Jewish family undergo the tumult, upheaval, and brutality of nineteenth and twentieth-century history in this panoramic and skillfully nuanced family drama, rich with gossip and incident, capturing a Germany now lost to time. Gabriele Tergit’s Effingers is a novel, at once epic and intimate, about the lives and fates of three generations of a German Jewish family. Beginning in 1878 and ending in 1948, we follow the Effingers, a family of modest craftsmen from southern Germany, who are joined through marriage to two families of high-society financiers in Berlin, the Goldschmidts and the Oppners. The Effingers soon rise to prominence as one of the most important German industrialist families in Berlin, but with the outbreak of World War I, they fall on hard times and must navigate the tumultuous changes of the Weimar Republic. Full of parties and drama and delicious gossip, and featuring a kaleidoscopic cast of characters, Effingers is a keenly observed account of German Jewish life in all its richness and complexity. Tergit's precise and limpid prose dazzles in Sophie Duvernoy's elegant translation. Woefully underrated when it first appeared in 1951, and only recently rediscovered in Germany, Effingers is a meditation on identity and nationality that establishes Tergit as one of the most significant writers of the twentieth century. Paperback864 pagesNYRB Classics, 20255 x 8 inchesISBN 9781681379791Literature, Fiction

Effingers

By Morten Høi Jensen “A nuanced portrait . . . thoughtful [and] perceptive.” —Kirkus Reviews “The Master of Contradictions is many things: a biography of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, a history of the Weimar Republic, and a story about one reader’s relationship to the most beguiling novel of the twentieth century. Morten Høi Jensen writes from a place of profound feeling and deep erudition. He is the perfect guide to the novel’s intricate, enchanted world; I did not want to stop exploring it with him.” —Merve Emre, contributing writer, New Yorker The arresting story of how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain as a defeated Germany descended into political chaos Like many writers of his generation, Thomas Mann (1875–1955) welcomed the outbreak of the First World War. He viewed it as a spiritual necessity, a chance to reassert German cultural dominance over Western ideas of democracy and enlightenment. Then, in 1924, he published The Magic Mountain, a massive novel that culminates in the slaughter of war and foreshadows the Nazi terror to come. One of the central achievements of modernism, The Magic Mountain bears testimony to its author’s dramatic political reorientation as a defender of democracy. This poignant book is a biography of Mann’s great novel—its evolution from a short story into a two-volume masterpiece and one of the bestselling novels of the Weimar era. Deftly weaving together elements of biography, history, and literary criticism, Morten Høi Jensen reveals how writing The Magic Mountain against a backdrop of world war, revolution, hyperinflation, and rising right-wing terror moved Mann to embrace the democratic and humanistic ideas he once scorned. One hundred years after The Magic Mountain was first published, at a time when democratic ideas are again under threat, Jensen reveals the universality and timeliness of Mann’s great novel—its still-resonant debates over democracy and tyranny, time and place, illness and death. Hardcover248 Pages Yale University Press, 2025 5.50 x 8.50 inches ISBN 9780300233742History

The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of "The Magic Mountain"

Herausgegeben von Anke Blümm, Elizabeth Otto, Patrick Rössler Bauhaus und Nationalsozialismus galten bis weit nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg als unvereinbare Gegensätze. Der Band versammelt neueste Erkenntnisse zum ambivalenten Schaffen Bauhausangehöriger nach 1933. Wir stehen mitten im Existenzkampf und haben höchstens ein Restchen alter Ideale in ganz, ganz persönliche Gebiete retten können, aber nie werden Sie erfahren, was die Bauhäusler in Prag, Paris und Berlin wirklich tun«, schrieb der frühere Bauhaus-Student Ernst Göhl 1935 an den langjährigen Direktor Walter Gropius. In 15 biografischen Studien verdeutlicht der Band anhand neuester Forschungsergebnisse, wie sich Bauhausangehörige, die nach 1933 in Deutschland verblieben waren, mit den neuen Machthabern im NS-Staat arrangierten. Von den Konflikten mit völkisch-nationalen Kräften während der Weimarer Republik ausgehend, zeigen Untersuchungen renommierter deutscher und internationaler Autorinnen und Autoren – u.a. zu Wassily Kandinsky und Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Else Mögelin und Wilhelm Wagenfeld – das breite Spektrum im Umgang mit dem verbrecherischen NS-Regime. Die seit über 30 Jahren erste umfassende Auseinandersetzung mit dem ambivalenten Verhältnis von Bauhaus und Nationalsozialismus wendet sich an Kunsthistorikerinnen und Kunsthistoriker mit Schwerpunkt auf der Geschichte der Moderne im 20. Jahrhundert, aber auch an alle, die sich für die vielfältigen Schicksale von Künstlerinnen und Künstlern in einer Diktatur interessieren. Paperback352 pagesGöttingen Wallstein, 202414 x 22.2 cm.ISBN 9783835357556Art History, Bauhaus

...ein Restchen alter Ideale: Bauhäuslerinnen und Bauhäusler im Nationalsozialismus

By Kai Uwe Schierz, Patrick Rössler, Miriam Krautwurst, & Elizabeth Otto In 1919, the program of the State Bauhaus school in Weimar promised a modern education for the talented, regardless of age and gender, which drew many young women to apply. The Bauhaus-Girl ("Bauhausmädel") Type, described in a January 1930 issue of the magazine Die Woche, knew what she wanted and would succeed. This volume's essays question the euphoria of the time period with the knowledge of Bauhaus members' subsequent destinies. The essays take as exemplary the biographies of Gertrud Arndt, Marianne Brandt, Margarete Heymann, and Margaretha Reichardt, both during their training and as Bauhaus graduates. Hardcover336 pages, 496 imagesSandstein Verlag, 201927.5 x 22 cmISBN 9783954984596Architecture, Gender

Bauhausmädels: Gertrud Arndt, Marianne Brandt, Margarete Heymann, Margaretha Reichardt

Original Price: $29.95 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS By Karolina Watroba This groundbreaking study of Franz Kafka’s legacy—to be published during the centenary of his death in 2024—explores Kafka’s life and influence in an entirely new and dynamic way. In 2024, exactly one hundred years after his death at the age of forty, readers all over the world will reach for the works of Franz Kafka. Many of them will want to learn more about the enigmatic man behind the classic books filled with mysterious courts and monstrous insects. Who, exactly, was Franz Kafka? Karolina Watroba, the first Germanist ever elected as a fellow of Oxford's All Souls College, will tell Kafka's story beyond the boundaries of language, time, and space, traveling from the Prague of Kafka's birth through the work of contemporary writers in East Asia, whose award-winning novels are, in part, homages to the great man himself. Metamorphoses presents a non-chronological journey through Kafka's life, combining literary scholarship with the responses of his readers throughout the last century. It is a both an exploration of Kafka's life and an exciting new way of approaching literary history. Hardcover254 pagesPegasus Books, 20246 x 1.1 x 9 inchesISBN 9781639366712Literary biography, literary history

Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka

Learn all about the world of art, from Leonardo da Vinci to Vincent van Gogh, from Frida Kahlo to Georgia O'Keeffe! Trace outlines of art masterpieces and discover the artists who created them! This is a Trace-Along Scratch and Sketch! White outlines on black scratch-off pages create a fun way for younger children (5 and up) to build confidence in their own creativity as they reveal brilliant patterns, swirls, and colors beneath! They can also use the sketch pages in the back to create their own works of art. Includes a wooden stylus for drawing on the black-coated pages. 20 black-coated scratch-off pages, 20 illustrated pages with informative text, and 20 extra pages for independent drawing and sketching. Sturdy wire-o hardcover binding. Non-toxic. Potential eye irritant. Avoid inhaling particles of scratch coating. Not for children under 5 years. Meets all applicable safety standards. Hardcover 64 pagesAge range: 5 and up 6.3 x 0.7 x 8.3 inchesPeter Pauper Press, 2020ISBN 9781441334008Children, Activity Book

Fine Art Scratch and Sketch

By Romy Cockx, Robin Schuldenfrei and Lara Steinhäußer Exploring fashion and interior design through a gender lens, from the Victorian era to contemporary designers like Martin Margiela and Raf Simons Fashion & Interiors: A Gendered Affair explores the relationship between fashion and interiors from a gender perspective. In the second half of the nineteenth century, bourgeois ladies embellished both their bodies and their homes with drapes, fringing and ruches. Male designers such as Henry van de Velde and Josef Hoffmann waged war on that decorative excess and designed women’s clothing and interiors as part of a well-thought-out total work of art. Fashion designers Paul Poiret and Jeanne Lanvin drew inspiration from this approach and used interior design to create a powerful brand for their fashion houses. The impact of clothing also resonated with modernist (interior) architects such as Adolf Loos, Lilly Reich and Le Corbusier. This complex history is reflected in surprising ways in the visual language and creations of contemporary fashion designers such as Ann Demeulemeester, Martin Margiela, and Raf Simons. Hardcover224 pagesHannibal Publishers, 202527.5 x 20.5 cmISBN 9789464941937Fashion, Design History

Fashion & Interiors: A Gendered Affair

By Erich KästnerTranslated by Anthea Bell "It’s not the most famous book by the author of Emil and the Detectives but it’s his best… breathes new life into the school story" —Alex O’Connell, Books of the Year The Times "Atmospheric… bittersweet… a memorable exploration of bravery, boyhood and friendships" —Wall Street Journal Martin’s school is no ordinary school. There are snowball fights, kidnappings, cakes, a parachute jump, a mysterious man called ‘No-Smoking’ who lives in a railway carriage and a play about a flying classroom. As the Christmas holidays draw near, Martin and his friends – nervous Uli, cynical Sebastian, Johnny, who was rescued by a sea captain, and Matthias, who is always hungry (particularly after a meal) – are preparing for the end-of-term festivities. But there are surprises, sadness and trouble on the way – and a secret that changes everything. The Flying Classroom is a magical, thrilling and bittersweet story about friendship, fun and being brave when you are at your most scared. (It also features a calf called Eduard, but you will have to read it to find out why.) Paperback 160 pagesPushkin Children's Books, 20255.08 x 7.77 inchesISBN 9781782694656Children's Books

The Flying Classroom

By Erich KästnerIllustrated by Walter TrierTranslated by Anthea Bell The book behind the world-famous film — in a new translation by Anthea Bell Luise has ringlets. Lottie has braids. Apart from that they look exactly the same. But they are sure that they have never set eyes on each other in their lives. When the two girls meet at a summer camp and discover the secret behind their similarity, they decide to switch places. Everyone is fooled (apart from the dog) and, despite a few mistakes and misadventures, everything goes to plan for Luise as Lottie and Lottie as Luise – until their father meets a young, beautiful woman and things start to unravel… Funny, moving, affectionate and improbable, The Parent Trap has twice been adapted for film – but the book remains one of the great classics of German children’s literature. Paperback144 pagesAge range: 8-12 yearsPushkin Children's Books, 20255.08 x 7.8 inchesISBN 9781805331704Children's Books

The Parent Trap

By Irmgard KeunTranslated by Kathie von Ankum “A highly original, extremely stylish novel...The narrator is a young woman whose irreverent and funny voice you will not easily forget.” —Daniel Kehlmann, New York Times Book Review “A young girl navigates interwar German society and the expectations—or lack thereof—placed upon women, in this poignant, melancholy novel from the late Keun…[This] heartbreaking story of dashed hopes is one that still has the power to affect and inspire.” —Publishers Weekly This enthralling tale of a “material girl” in 1930s Berlin is the masterpiece of a literary icon, rediscovered and restored to the same heights as such luminaries as Isherwood and Brecht. In 1931 a young woman writer living in Germany penned her answer to Anita Loos’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and the era of cinematic glamour: The Artificial Silk Girl. Though a Nazi censorship board banned Irmgard Keun’s work in 1933 and destroyed all existing copies, the novel survived, as fresh and relevant today as the day it was written. The Artificial Silk Girl is the story of Doris, beautiful and striving, who vows to write down all that happens to her as the star of her own life story. But instead of scripting what she hopes will be a quick rise to fame and fortune as either an actress or the mistress/wife of a wealthy man, she describes a slow descent into near prostitution and homelessness. Prewar Berlin is not the dazzling and exciting city of promise it seems; Doris unwittingly reveals a bleak, seamy urban landscape. Paperback224 pagesOther Press, 20255.24 x 8 inchesISBN 9781635425086Fiction, Literature

The Artificial Silk Girl: A Novel

By Joachim C. FestTranslated by Martin Chalmers “Quietly compelling, elegantly expressed...Not I shrinks the Wagnerian scale of German history in the 1930s and 1940s to chamber music dimensions. It is intensely personal, cleareyed and absolutely riveting.”—New York Times “A stunning portrait of a strenuously anti-Nazi family in Berlin who managed to hang on to their moral convictions during the brutalizing Hitler years...A beautifully written and translated work that creates rare, subtle portraits of Germans.” —Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year, a portrait of an intellectually rigorous German household opposed to the Nazis and how its members suffered for their political stance. Few writers have deepened our understanding of the Third Reich as much as German historian, biographer, journalist, and critic Joachim Fest. His biography of Adolf Hitler has reached millions of readers around the world. Born in 1926, Fest experienced firsthand the rise of the Nazis, the Second World War, and a catastrophically defeated Germany, thus becoming a vital witness to these difficult years. In this memoir of his childhood and youth, Fest offers a far-reaching view of how he experienced the war and National Socialism. True to the German Bildung tradition, Fest grows up immersed in the works of Goethe, Schiller, Mörike, Rilke, Kleist, Mozart, and Beethoven. His father, a conservative Catholic teacher, opposes the Nazi regime and as a result loses his job and status. Fest is forced to move to a boarding school in the countryside that he despises, and in his effort to come to terms with his father’s strong political convictions, he embarks on a tireless quest for knowledge and moral integrity that will shape the rest of his life and writing career. Paperback464 pagesOther Press, 2025 5.5 x 8.25 inchesISBN 9781635425123History

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