We do not expect books from the distant past to be genuinely funny. Even those that are advertised as rascally and unorthodox tend to amuse only indirectly, as a kind of in-joke for the historically ...

As a young man, Heinrich Heine faced a hard question: homeland or freedom? Frustrated with censorship and anti-Semitism in Germany, the writer headed to Paris. There, he penned masterpieces but always ...

Tribute to the memory of Heinrich Heine was paid yesterday by many thousands who visited the lonely grave of the poet at Montmartre Cemetery here. Yesterday was the seventieth anniversary of Heinrich ...

In the last week of July, the outstanding German poet and essayist Heinrich Heine was bestowed a very dubious honour. On 28 July, his bust was placed in the Walhalla, the “Teutonic” Hall of Fame, ...

Archipelago Books, 375 pages, $17. At the age of 27 and already a failure at the textile business, Heinrich Heine abandoned his law studies, first at Bonn and then at Göttingen, to hike around the ...

As we mark the 65th anniversary of National Review, was there ever a more appropriate time to stand athwart history yelling “Stop”? We’re in the midst of a worldwide pandemic whose economic and social ...