The Berlin-based publisher Ullstein has dropped its German translation of Hillbilly Elegy—JD Vance's 2016 memoir—in response to him becoming Donald Trump's running mate. On July 15, the former ...

Putting German books in translation alongside recent UK book trends. Hey! Hey, you there! You look like someone who wants to read more German books but doesn’t quite know where to start, am I right?

“Graphic Passages” makes high-quality German comics and graphic novels accessible to readers across South Asia through ...

According to an oft-cited and oft-lamented statistic, a mere 3% of books published in the U.S. are works in translation. In recent years, several independent publishers have strived to fill this ...

In his job as a publisher, Moshe Sakal often needs to communicate with Israel about his books’ bar codes. Sometimes these phone calls sound like an Abbott and Costello routine. Encountering an error, ...

The German book industry reported a 1.8% increase in revenue for 2024, reaching €9.88 billion ($11.56 billion), according to data released by the German Publishers and Booksellers Association (GPBA).

Palestinian author Adania Shibli was meant to accept the "LiBeraturpreis" of the LitProm association on October 20 at the Frankfurt Book Fair, which honors women writers from the Global South for a ...

A revised edition of Reformer’s translation ranked among 2022 bestsellers. Only 4 percent of Germans say they read the Bible every day, according to a poll conducted by Insa-Consulere and the German ...

The victory of Kim de l’Horizon, a nonbinary writer, in a top literary prize stirred a debate about how the German language can accommodate people who don’t identify as male or female. By Thomas ...