Joseph Roth
What young Ukrainians will learn from reading Joseph Roth
Joseph Roth’s writing about interwar Europe speaks to present-day Ukraine
The book as narrator: The Pages, by Hugo Hamilton, reviewed
It is a truism that a book needs readers in order to have a meaningful existence. Hugo Hamilton’s The Pages…
Stefan Zweig: the tragedy of a great bad writer
Stefan Zweig wasn’t, to be honest, a very good writer. This delicious fact was hugged to themselves by most of…
When intellectuals are clueless about the first world war
No one alive now has any adult experience of the first world war, but still it shows no sign of…