“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it—to be fed so much love I […]
German literature
Traveling on One Leg
“The border is not at the border.” Traveling on One Leg follows Irene, a young woman who flees the oppressive regime of Ceaușescu’s Romania for West Germany. Disoriented […]
German literature
The Emigrants
“Memory, the insistent revenant, like the dog that always finds its way back to its vomit.” — W. G. Sebald, The Emigrants Dr. Henry Selwyn The first section […]
French literature
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
“What if God were not the one we imagined?” Chapter 1: The Birth of Jesus The novel opens with the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, but Schmitt reimagines […]
American literature
The Secret History
“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.” Prologue The novel opens with Richard Papen, the narrator, confessing his involvement in the murder of his […]