Michael Lipkin

Michael Lipkin is the Academic Director and Senior Instructional Professor of the Program for Public Thinking at the University of Chicago. He has written extensively on the longue durée of realism in Germany, from the mid-nineeenth century to the present day, in publications such as the German Studies Review, the Colloquia Germanica, and the Gottfried Kellers Moderne project. His writing on culture and politics has appeared in American and European publications, such as The Baffler, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Merkur. His translation of Walter Kempowski's An Ordinary Youth (Tadellöser & Wolff) was published with New York Review of Books Classics and Granta in 2023.