Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world “I hate it when people compare things to Kafka. I’ve written dramas about Kafka,” exclaims an indignant Daniel ...

What Kehlmann’s novel captures is how acquiescence happens — not all at once, not at any single identifiable moment. It seeps in, never announcing itself as a choice. Georg Wilhelm Pabst isn’t a man ...

The painter Manuel Kaminski is an invention of Daniel Kehlmann, best known outside his native Germany for the ingenious bestseller Measuring the World. He's a plausible late survivor of the golden age ...

“People were many things before the war, and then they were something completely different. I'm telling you, it's all mixed-up and jumbled.” – Daniel Kehlmann LiveMint's quote for the day is by Daniel ...

I met Daniel Kehlmann in Vienna in 2005, on the night before German sales of his novel “Measuring the World” went ballistic. He was ridiculously young, ridiculously well read for being so young, and ...

If movies are a place where dreams come true and nightmares are made real, what do films say about history? And can the pursuit of art as a civilizing influence ever mitigate the horrors taking place ...

A young film star who escapes from the pressures of celebrity by pretending to be a professional impersonator of himself is one of the characters in Daniel Kehlmann’s latest book, Fame. In one scene ...

Daniel Kehlmann describes his new novel, Tyll, as dark, frightening, and murky—in a good way. The lead character is a mythic, famous folkloric jester, Tyll Eulenspiegel, a seventeenth-century king of ...

A novel's opener doesn't need to be explosive to be termed memorable. Some writers, such as Munich-born Daniel Kehlmann, pack just as powerful a punch with a small-scale event whose impact we know ...

It cannot be an easy thing to write a comic novel about the death of God. Still, the German novelist Daniel Kehlmann may just have pulled it off. “F” is the protagonist of a book within a book, the ...