Five essays: 'Heine and the Consequences' (1910), 'Nestroy and Posterity' (1912), 'Afterword to 'Heine and the Consequences'' (1911), 'Between Two Strains of Life: Final Word' (1917), and 'Let No One Ask' (1934); translated and annotated by Jonathan Franzen, assistance and additional notes by Paul Reitter and Daniel Kehlmann; parallel German English text for the essays.