There is a Borges story about a map so exact, so precisely detailed, it grew to the size of the place it depicted. The map had become the territory. Kids bearing signs greet Robert F. Kennedy's ...

Gunter Grass called him the most significant of all East German writers. So why did Uwe Johnson choose to live in the unlikely setting of Sheerness, Kent, asks John Goudie. To his fellow drinkers in ...

European modernists used the novel as a means of mapping metropolitan experience. From James Joyce’s immortalizing of “dear, dirty Dublin” in Ulysses, to the grimy urban paean of Alfred Döblin’s ...

You are right, as I was, to be intimidated by the sheer number of pages—1668—of Uwe Johnson’s novel, Anniversaries. This may be the longest novel that you/I will ever read, but I can assure you that ...

Born under the Third Reich, Uwe Johnson began this dense, bustling and surprisingly playful magnum opus in 1966, having left East Germany with his family for the United States; it wasn’t completed ...

On the occasion of the first complete translation of Uwe Johnson’s magnum opus Anniversaries (New York Review Books, 2018, trans. Damion Searls), the Goethe-Institut New York presents a book launch, ...

First published in German in the early 1970s, Uwe Johnson's two-part mammoth work, Anniversaries is a publishing phenomenon, for its page count alone, running to over 1,600 pages. Manhattan is the ...

The second volume of Uwe Johnson’s massive novel begins a day after the ending of the first volume: Saturday, April 20, 1968 and concludes Tuesday, August 20 th of the same year. Last week I reviewed ...