Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The New York Public Library honored German novelist Daniel Kehlmann and other distinguished writers, including Bruce Springsteen ...

In the German legend, Faust signs a contract with the devil, exchanging his immortal soul for vast knowledge and other earthly rewards. It's a cut-and-dried transaction. In Daniel Kehlmann's new novel ...

Daniel Kehlmann's *Measuring the World* was translated into more than 40 languages. His work has received several awards, including the Candide Prize, the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer ...

German literary wunderkind Kehlmann follows up Measuring the World (2006) with this curious and lesser novel. Self-conscious and yet completely un–self-aware, journalist Sebastian Zollner attempts to ...

When do compromises turn into full-blown capitulation? Daniel Kehlmann's new novel draws on the true story of German film director G.W. Pabst. A filmmaker in Nazi Germany strikes a deal with the devil ...