“Gegenwartsbewältigung” (Dealing with the present) by Max Czollek was the first book I read this year and the first book written by a man that I’ve read since 2019. The book is an amazing nonfiction work on German culture, literature and politics since 1945 that does away with Leitkultur, Gedächtnistheater and angeblicher Entnazifizierung (my lousy…