It was adapted for television in 1977 as "The Tongues of Men" and was the inspiration behind the creation in 1983 of the English avant-rock group News from Babel.
Steinerjeva prva izdana knjiga je "Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in Contrast", ki je izšla leta 1960 in je študija različnih ideologij Tolstoja in Dostojevskega.