A powerful new work of fiction, rooted in real events, explores the role of the artist in times of crisis. "The Director" by Daniel Kehlmann is resonating deeply with the challenges of our own time.

The New York Public Library honored German novelist Daniel Kehlmann and other distinguished writers, including Bruce Springsteen and Shonda Rhimes, at their annual Library Lions Gala this month.

Daniel Kehlmann’s latest novel, “The Director,” an engrossing meditation on the exigencies of art and the dangers of artistic complicity, lands in the United States at a good time. Which is to say, a ...

Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the ...

“I don’t know what I would have done.” When the novelist Daniel Kehlmann hears Germans talk about the Nazi era, that is what many of them say. We were sitting in a Manhattan café at the end of ...

Can a historical novel be morally serious, even tragic, and also playful at the same time? For a writer of fiction, history is a dangerous thing to play with—one doesn’t want to be trivial or false.

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Irina Dumitrescu TYLL By Daniel Kehlmann Translated by Ross Benjamin Tyll Ulenspiegel first ...

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 ...

“Tyll,” a best-selling novel in Germany and soon to be a Netflix series, is set in the dark times its author couldn’t get out of his head. By Tobias Grey BERLIN — When Daniel Kehlmann read the news ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Daniel Kehlmann’s novel “Fame” includes what must be one of the most hackneyed sex scenes I’ve read this year. It begins with the narrator musing, “I desired her so much I would have given a year of ...

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 ...