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Detective fiction is known as a genre that is concerned with revealing truths, both in the fictional world of the text as well as in the society after which it is patterned. The current socio-political environment, however, has been described as an era of post-truth politics and political propaganda, in which truth is more often determined by the relative strength of its representation. While some contemporary crime novels continue to propagate a reassuring message of truth, select Austrian narratives reflect this new so-called post-truth world. Bringing together theories of detective fiction and post-truth discourse, this article demonstrates how Eva Rossmann’s 2017 crime novel Patrioten (Patriots) adapts the themes and structures of traditional detective narratives to expose a society in which certainty is determined less by objective facts than by their construction in the media and socio-political discourse. The analysis concludes that the novel’s thematic and formal innovations help to redefine the socio-critical potential of contemporary detective fiction by showing the imminent dangers of an unregulated post-truth society.

The reported 9.2% drop in university enrollments in languages other than English (Looney & Lusin, 2019) highlights a perceived divergence between the goals of students and language programs and points to a crisis of relevance that has a detrimental effect not only on language programs and students' career preparedness, but also increases the risk of the United States becoming a nation of \"second-language illiterates.\" This article suggests integrating the Structured Program for the Acquisition of German in the USResources and Know-How (SPARK) for German program by the AATG and the Goethe Institute into the intermediate German classroom to re-emphasize the relevance of language study. This innovative approach provides community- and service-learning opportunities to train students in transferable skills that will make them career-ready and help them develop critical life skills.

The literary strategies in Robert Menasse's novel Die Hauptstadt underscore the crisis of the EU in its attempts to provide a productive common transnational memory and collaboration with regard to social and environmental policies. It also points to a solution. The structure and rhetorical devices mold the narrative into a model for productive cooperation. A functioning European Union, the novel suggests, is contingent on returning to a prioritization of cultural multiplicity over economic individualism and postnational citizenry over national loyalties. This article analyzes Menasse's politicized aesthetic text along with select aestheticized political works in order to discern his vision for a supranational democratic union of engaged citizens. This collection of writings also demonstrates a form of engaged literature in the twenty-first century that has the potential for real social impact.