Witty and engaging essays from the writer hailed as the equal of George Orwell and Edmund Wilson. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "that most rambunctious of all critics--an iconoclast," HansMagnus
In this highly acclaimed and entertaining book, already "among the touchstones of the new travel writing" (Newsweek), one of West Germany's leading authors takes us on an insider's tour of Europe in t
HansMagnusEnzensberger takes the title for this collection of daring short essays on topical themes—politics, economics, religion, society—not from Jeremy Bentham’s famous prison b
Northern Spain is the only part of Western Europe where anarchism played a significant role in political life of the twentieth century. Enjoying wide-ranging support among both the urban and rural wor
The inner workings of the European Union are as much a mystery to those living within its confines as they are to those of us who reside elsewhere. The Brussels bureaucracy that sets many of the EU’
In Civil Wars, HansMagnusEnzensberger, Germany's most astute literary and political critic, chronicles the global changes taking place as the result of evolving notions of nationalism, loyalty, and
HansMagnusEnzensberger has mastered poetry, novels, and the intricate balance between history and fiction, but he’s never done anything quite like this before. For the writing of Unlikely Progeny, E
HansMagnusEnzensberger, widely regarded as Germany’s greatest living poet, was already well known in the 1960s, the tempestuous decade of whichTumult is an autobiographical record. Derived from old
This bilingual (German/English) edition of the talk given at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Berlin, 1998, with illustrations by K. H. Hofmann and an introduction by David Mumford, discu
Any new book by poet, essayist, writer, and translator HansMagnusEnzensberger, one of the most influential and internationally renowned German intellectuals, is cause for notice, and Mr. Zed’s Refle
Expanded bilingual edition of Germany's most important poet, adding work from later collections including Kiosk and Lighter Than Air to his earlier Bloodaxe Selected Poems.