Goethe contained many people and Wilson’s book contains a dozen others, including a treatise on suicide, a life of the playwright Friedrich Schiller (Goethe’s best friend), introductions to ...

Goethe is said to have written the second part ... for the sheer sake of doing it ," writes Csíkszentmihályi in his 1990 book Flow: The Secret of Happiness. Csíkszentmihályi has conducted ...

Helen and Kurt Wolff immigrated to New York in 1941, and founded Pantheon Books, a publishing house devoted mainly to the translation of German and other European literature. The Goethe-Institut’s ...

Molly Nonfiction, 1850 in this translation Six weeks ago a commenter suggested I read “Conversations of Goethe.” Thank you, commenter. The book, a version of which was first published in 1836 ...

If Goethe never tired of acknowledging his profound indebtedness to the Book of Books, he never ceased to reiterate till the end of his days his deep gratitude to the “God-intoxicated Jew ...

Miller brings The Great Books podcast to a close ... of Houghton University to discuss The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe John J. Miller is joined by Jeff Cavins of Ascension Press to discuss ...

Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. Goethe Dies, translated from the German by James Reidel (Seagull; $21), is a brief and headlong collection—just ...