Kurt Tucholsky--poet, storyteller, literary journalist, and critic--left behind a voluminous oeuvre that bears witness to his courageous commitment and unusual creativeness as a writer during one of Germany's most difficult epochs. He was feared as a satirical chronicler of the Weimar Republic, praised as the wittiest poet of the Berlin dialect, liked for his refreshing and melancholy tales of love and companionship, and admired for his passionate and uncompromising fight for truth, justice, freedom, and peace. His love-hate relationship to Germany, born of wounded idealism, has been compared to that of other great satirists, such as Heinrich Heine or Tucholsky's contemporary George Grosz, whose acid, graphic attacks on the culprits and ills of their times parallel Tucholsky's own eloquent criticism. But Tucholsky is not just a German phenomenon: the increasing public attention he has received since the war, at home and abroad, shows that the various voices in...