A Portrait of Life After War
You have heard about the terrible war in ex- Yugoslavia between 1991 and 1999. You have read about it, maybe tried to understand it. You heard sad stories and saw shocking pictures. Maybe you’ve seen movies about it – like Angelina Jolie’s 2011 film In the Land of Blood and Honey that takes on the […]
Book Review: Upriver With Nick Thorpe
“Th ese are the stories of the people of the Danube, and their dark dreamy river,” announces Nick Thorpe at the beginning of a work…
Book Review: The Passage to Europe
Luuk van Middelaar has produced a superb, eloquent study of the European Union that is essential reading for anyone endeavouring to fathom how the EU’s…
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…
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…
Book Review: Voices in Exile
“By banning Jewish composers, Hitler’s Reich amputated an essential limb from the body of German cultural continuity,” writes…
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…
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…