On Tuesday, Feb. 3, the Center for German and European Studies at Brandeis will present a reading by best-selling German author Bernhard Schlink. He will read from his novel, “Der Vorleser” ("The ...

Bernhard Schlink, Author, trans. from the German by John E. Woods. Pantheon $23 (320p) ISBN 978-0-375-42090-0 Schlink's The Reader was a surprise bestseller on these shores, discovered by Oprah and ...

Bernhard Schlink, trans. from the German by Carol Brown Janeway. Pantheon, $25.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-307-90726-4 Most of the seven short stories in Schlink’s eloquent and profound second collection are ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... German writer Bernhard Schlink, born in 1944 shortly before the Nazi defeat, has spent much of his adult life trying to come to terms with the horrifying ...

Assistant Professor of German Jens Elias Klenner praised Schlink’s introspective novel’s ability to “ask us to read again, more than once slowly,” and “to serve as a looking glass into a troubled ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our ...

Like a cross between "The Big Chill" and a talky, Jean-Luc Godard film, Bernhard Schlink's new novel reunites a cast of aging idealists who squint back at their youth. Broken allegiances rankle. New ...

It won’t even take you as long as the title to read this slim piece of fiction. Long popular in his native Germany, Bernhard Schlink made a name for himself in the U.S. in 1997, when his novel “The ...

It cannot always be easy to be a German. How does one deal with a recent national history drenched in so much innocent blood? How does a German writer find the right tone to describe it, without ...