Book Review: Deconstructing Karl Kraus
It has to be an event when a writer who is “arguably America’s greatest living novelist” (so says the dust jacket blurb) goes to great lengths to present a revered and particularly difficult Austrian author to an American reading public in a meticulously produced annotated dual-language edition. The result is an unusual and unusually challenging […]
Book Review: Post Cold War Austria
Reviewing edited collections of essays is notoriously difficult. In this case, it is especially challenging because Austria’s International Position after the End of the Cold…
Literary Events: October 2013
VIENNA LIT BOOK GROUP This month, Vienna Lit’s book group reads The Maid’s Version by Daniel Woodrell. This is Woodrell’s first novel since the celebrated…
Book Review: Voices in Exile
“By banning Jewish composers, Hitler’s Reich amputated an essential limb from the body of German cultural continuity,” writes Michael Haas in his groundbreaking book on…
Book Review: Between Avant-Garde and Mass-Market High Culture
How do foreigners think of Austria? Ask a German or an Italian – as the Federal Ministry of Economy did in 2005 – and the…
Book Review: Media Madness in New Croatia
“What’s up?“ “A blockhead is driving me nuts. I recommended him as a correspondent in Iraq. He’s gone…
Book Review: The Parodoxical Erwin Schrödinger in Love and Work
by Rennie Sweeney The intricacies of a life are woven inextricably into the weave of work and the…
Literary Events: September 2013
Textstrom Poetry Slam Textstrom is the oldest poetry slam in Vienna, running since 2004. The event is open…
Book Review: The Tale of Jozef Tiso: Priest, Politician, Collaborator
While the tumultuous years from 1914-1945 are surely the most researched, and written-about in modern history, the story…