NEW RELEASES
Recommended reads to curl up with on long autumn nights
Every Man for Himself and God Against All by Werner Herzog, translated by Michael Hofmann
(Out on 19 October, The Bodley Head, £25)
There aren’t many living movie directors more fascinating than the brilliant and eccentric German filmmaker Werner Herzog. It is unclear how much his public persona – audacious, daring and prone to wild flights of imagination – is real, or cultivated. What we do know is that he has made some of the most compelling and unusual films of the last 50 years, including the 1982 epic, which demanded his crew manually haul a 320-ton steamship up a steep hill, and 2005’s , which used real footage and audio to chronicle the life and death of bear enthusiast Timothy Treadwell. His films often
