Article list

17.12.2022.

Bookpackers

Do travel books really deserve a place in your luggage?

10.07.2022.

On the Road Again

A journey through the career of Ukrainian writer Serhiy Zhadan, winner of this year's EBRD Literature Prize.

17.12.2020.

4 x fiction, 4 x fact

Eight books that made a difference in 2020.

17.06.2020.

Living the Dream

Central Europe, Milan Kundera and Yugoslavia

12.09.2018.

Journey to Russia

Miroslav Krleža’s masterpiece of mid-Twenties reportage is a compelling hybrid of travelogue, personal memoir and political essay

11.09.2018.

Caution, Futurist Approaching

Marinetti, World War I, and why he ended up in Rijeka in 1919

05.01.2017.

Man in a Suitcase

Why we should be rereading Joseph Roth in 2017

14.12.2016.

Sachertorte, Sacher-Masoch

So what is it that makes Vienna the capital of sex?

10.4.2016.

We Play World War: Karl Kraus and the end of Austria

Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was one of the few people who wrote against World War I from start to finish: not because he thought there was anything wrong in defending one’s flag, but because he saw how patriotism was hijacked by the mass media.

16.3.2016.

Crucif*cked: the extraordinary career of Egon Bondy

Outside Czech-speaking circles, underground writer and philosopher Egon Bondy remains almost unknown; however it’s hard to see where the Czech literary scene would be without him

15.6.2015.

Death, metal: Ernst Jünger and Germany’s 20th century

The German author of Storm of Steel was the greatest writer to come out of the trenches of World War I. It’s almost exactly a century since he first saw front-line action.