September 1, 2023
New month, new releases! First up is Democracy and Nigeria’s Fourth Republic examining Nigeria’s challenges with consolidating democracy and the crisis of governance; The Last Laugh looks into Murnau’s classic… READ MORE
August 4, 2023
New for August we have the first in Nat Rubner’s two volume set exploring a pivotal moment in the history of the African continent; the first biography of Gérard Grisey… READ MORE
June 13, 2023
The theme of this book was suddenly focused for me when I recently read an anthology of memoirs by citizens of Sarajevo who lived through the siege of that city… READ MORE
April 25, 2023
Austria Made in Hollywood coming out in paperback gives me the opportunity to share a fun article I read while researching the image of Austria in the United States before… READ MORE
March 2, 2023
The roots of my collaboration with Frank Beck on the translation of Lou Andreas-Salomé’s 1921 novel Das Haus go back 58 years, to my 1965 attendance at the Deutsche Sommerschule… READ MORE
February 22, 2023
Passing the milestone of twenty-five years with Boydell & Brewer has been cause to reflect on my time with the company and what good fortune I have had to be… READ MORE
November 10, 2022
In my recently published book Grete Meisel-Hess: The New Woman and the Sexual Crisis, I assert that cultural modernism in Germany and Austria was deeply embedded in racist and ableist… READ MORE
May 10, 2021
We are pleased to share this contributing post by Therese Decker, co-translator with Martin W. Walsh of the play Mariken van Nieumeghen (Mary of Nijmegen), which was published by Camden… READ MORE
February 15, 2021
1968. A ten-year-old boy picks up a ‘Hobby Buch’ in his local library, expecting a ‘Boys Own’ treat of exciting snippets of information about rocketry, technology, geography, plants and animals,… READ MORE
Epic Histories of the Spanish Americas