For about 25 years, Arnon Grunberg has been writing about literature, the effects of reading and the question how to judge stories and text. Waarheidsliefde en biefstuk contains essays about writers like J.M. Coetzee, Judith Herzberg, Irmgard Keun, Isaak Babel, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Guus Kuijer and Arthur Schnitzler.