“I spent my career as an academic studying great depressions. I can tell you from history that if we don’t act in a big way, you can expect another great depression, and this time it’s going to be far ...

Jahner quotes Alexander Plasch as saying that “the five-day week is out of the question for Germany, and does not even merit discussion.” If Vertigo has weaknesses, some are probably rooted in Jahner ...

In the waning days of 1918, Germany felt humiliated by its military defeat in World War I and exhausted after a political revolution turned it into a parliamentary democracy. But despite the upheaval, ...

The original German edition of Harald Jähner’s “Aftermath” was titled, more evocatively, “Wolfszeit,” meaning “time of the wolves.” The expression encapsulates the Hobbesian ferocity of the immediate ...

The contemporary parallels in Harald Jähner’s irresistibly rich history of Germany’s Weimar Republic are so powerful that at least one of its impacts on a reader is likely to be that you will nod in ...

The German author on struggling to forgive his parents’ generation, postwar Germany’s adoption of liberalism and his fondness for 1920s fiction Harald Jähner’s Aftermath, which is published in ...

Es ist Jahr für Jahr ein erstaunliches Phänomen: Am ersten Tag der Leipziger Buchmesse konzentriert sich irgendwann alles auf den Nachmittag, den Zeitpunkt, da der Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse ...