Missing not only those 'incessant meetings with old friends' but also that 'slightly permanent hangover,' Richard Charkin says he's headed back to Frankfurt.

Of the 14 titles named to the Portico Prize's fiction-and-nonfiction 2021 longlist, eight are debut publications for their authors.

Four publishing houses were merged by Walter De Gruyter in 1923. The new digitization brought 10,000 out-of-print titles back into availability.