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"PERHAPS IT IS COINCIDENCE, perhaps prescience, but Berlinica Publishing has rereleased an out-of-print book in English translation called Germany? Germany! Satirical Writings: The Kurt Tucholsky Reader. A collection of 65 short essays written between 1907 to 1932, the book starts with a spirited introduction by Ralph Blumenthal, who aptly calls Tucholsky "an astute eyewitness to history" and "a puckish critic of the universal human comedy." In a secondary introduction, Harry Zohn (the book's late translator) adds that the man was "the heckling voice in the gallery, and the conscience of Germany.""