Publications: Kenneth Gross's Puppets (University Of Chicago Press); Ha Jin's Nanjing Requiem (Pantheon Books); Julie Mehretu's first artist book Poetry of Sappho (Arion Press, Nov. 2011); Jeffrey Eugenides's The Marriage Plot (Die Liebeshandlung, Ullstein Verlage) published in German; Amy Waldman discussing The Submission (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011) on PBS Newshour. Norman Manea receives the Nelly Sachs Preis, awarded by the city of Dortmund; Alex Katz's exhibition "Cool Prints" is on view at the Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt through January 8; Jenny Holzer will be featured in the "Moving Types - Lettern in Bewegung“ exhibition at the Gutenberg-Museum in Mainz, October 21 through April 22; Laura Owens on show at the Kunstmuseum Bonn until January 8; and composer Sean Shepherd discussing his work on KNPB/PBS.

Publications: Historian Hope Harrison’s Ulbrichts Mauer: Wie die SED Moskaus Widerstand gegen den Mauerbau brach (Propyläen Verlag, 2011); Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close was adapted into a play and performed on June 18 in Frankfurt am Main; and historian and Academy Trustee Caroline Walker Bynum was awarded the Medieval Association of American's Haskins Medal for 2011 for her book Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007); the New Yorker featured conributions by Jeffrey Eugenides, entitled "Summer Fiction," and by Donald Antrim, entitled "He Knew." Sculptor Aaron Curry, photographer Mitch Epstein, and painter Sarah Morris are participating artists of "Internal / External Affairs," a temporary art project at the residence of US Ambassador Philip D. Murphy in Berlin, in cooperation with the American Academy and DAAD; Reynold Reynolds curated “Alive She Cried,” a film and video exhibition at the Galerie Zink in Berlin (ends July 2); Alex Katz's solo exhibition "Face the Music" on show at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Salzburg (ends July 16).