Book Review: John Leake’s Cold a Long Time
A Cover-Up in the Alps Three years ago, Vienna writer John Leake took a call from Bob and Lynda MacPherson. They told of the disappearance of their son, Duncan, and their frustrating, 20-year search to find out what happened to him. It was a Kafkaesque tale of bureaucratic obfuscation and obstruction that cost two more [...]
After Dark: Red Swank
Who’s for the Red Room? In all probability, if you’re a well-heeled expat with a cushy number at the UN and a penchant for skinny…
Book Review: The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig
A Writer’s Loss of Innocence When Karl Kraus quoted some yea-sayer to the effect that Stefan Zweig with his novellas in translation had conquered all…
Book Review: Extinction, by Thomas Bernhard
To the Point of Extinction Both during his life and after his death, Thomas Bernhard excited controversy. When he was accepting a minor national award…
Book Review: Paul Broda’s Scientist Spies
Tales of three Scientist Spies Paul Broda’s Scientist Spies is a personal account of the lives of the author’s father (Engelbert Boda) and step-father (Alan…
Book Review: John Leake’s The Vienna Woods Killer
Capturing ‘The Vienna Woods Killer’ It is early 1991, and the Viennese press is abuzz with news of…
Stone Cold Murder, an ‘Excellent Entertainment’
At last they can relax. After a strenuous first season running a dilapidated hotel in the British Lake…
Despair on a “Hot Tin Roof”
“Some men stop drinking after marriage, some start” exclaims Big Mama confronted with her son downing yet another…
Three Men in a Boat
Jerome K. Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat is essentially a collection of amusing anecdotes told by three…