Michael Hofmann
Michael Hofmann is a poet, translator and critic. His latest book of poems is One Lark, One Horse. He recently translated Jenny Erpenbeck’s novel Kairos.
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
On Europe | Peter Stamm
Peter Stamm
Peter Stamm on the Swiss referendum to join the EU. Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 149
Michael Hofmann | On Europe
Michael Hofmann
‘For all its flimsiness, the cage takes itself terribly seriously, restricting access, glorying in the name of Fatherland.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 149
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Peter Stamm & Michael Hofmann
Peter Stamm on the oldest barber in Switzerland, and Michael Hofmann on translating Peter Stamm.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 129
Where the World War Began
Joseph Roth
The World War began in Sarajevo, on a balmy summer afternoon in 1914. It...
Poetry | Issue 129
End of the Pier Show
Michael Hofmann
‘They were fascinated / by what they seemed to have contained.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 42
Losses
Günter Grass
‘In the summer, my wife and I visited the small Danish island of Møn.’
In Conversation | Issue 42
The Stone-Thrower from Eisenhuttenstadt
Max Thomas Mehr & Regine Sylvester
‘It has nothing to do with the question of the foreigners. No one in Eisenhuttenstadt wants the foreigners here.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 42
A Letter to my Sons: War’s End
Heinrich Böll
‘No, it's not easier for you than it was for us: don't let them tell you otherwise.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 42
Resistance
Günter Grass
‘Isn’t it already apparent how the peace movement is slowing down, flagging, impotent?’