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 ...

For Nazi censors in the 1930s, “Die Lorelei” presented a special problem. One of the best-known German poems, it tells of a maiden who sits on a mountaintop overlooking the Rhine, combing her golden ...

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 ...

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, ...

Metazoa, by Peter Godfrey-Smith (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Philosophers have long debated the nature of consciousness. This probing study takes an evolutionary approach, examining “experience in ...

Michael Goldfarb tells the story of German playwright, poet and essayist Heinrich Heine and argues that his writings, principles and vision guided the way for a modern Europe. Show more One day, three ...

The Nature Index tracks primary research articles from 145 natural-science and health-science journals, chosen based on reputation by an independent group of researchers. The Nature Index provides ...