Did Isadora Duncan set the stage for the cabaret culture you see in Babylon Berlin? — In A Moral History of the Inflation, Hans Ostwald (1873–1940) describes the the craze for nude dancing, and dancing in general, that swept over Germany in the 1920s. In this excerpt from my translation of the book (favourably reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement a little while ago), he credits…

The German submarine SM U-35 sank the troopship Gallia on 4 October 1916, and more than 1,000 men died. I have translated the u-boat captain’s account. This is the first time it has appeared in English. From Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière’s U-35 auf Jagd (Gütersloh: Bertelsmann, 1938) pp…

My translation of a poem by Henri de Régnier (1864–1936) This is, as far as I know, the first time that La Prière de Paul Cézanne has been rendered into English. It is from Vestigia Flammae (Paris: Mercure de France, 1921), pp. 223–224: Lord of light, air, and cloud, You to…