Joseph Roth
The beauty and tedium of the works of Adalbert Stifter
The 19th-century Austrian was an astonishingly pure stylist, as W.G. Sebald acknowledges – but it takes real dedication to craft to write such boring novels
Caught in the Mittel
Joseph Roth’s writing about interwar Europe speaks to present-day Ukraine
The book as narrator
It is a truism that a book needs readers in order to have a meaningful existence. Hugo Hamilton’s The Pages…
The wandering Jew
Stefan Zweig wasn’t, to be honest, a very good writer. This delicious fact was hugged to themselves by most of…
The game of consequences
No one alive now has any adult experience of the first world war, but still it shows no sign of…
