Rebecca Schuman is a frequent contributor to Slate, where she writes about higher education, Germany, popular culture, and parenting. She holds a PhD in German from the University of California, Irvine. Schadenfreude, A Love Story is her first book.
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Schadenfreude is the story of a teenage Jewish intellectual who falls in love—in love with a boy (who breaks her heart), a language (that's nearly impossible to master), a culture (that's nihilistic, but punctual), and a landscape (that's breathtaki... SEE MORE