Article list

06.07.2021.

A Life in the Woods

Felix Salten, Bambi the Deer, and Twentieth-Century Vienna

17.12.2020.

4 x fiction, 4 x fact

Eight books that made a difference in 2020.

14.10.2020.

The Nowhere Man

With the late Bekim Sejranović’s award-winning novel From Nowhere to Nowhere appearing in English for the first time, we look back at the career of an extravagantly talented writer

14.10.2020.

Kovač Through the Looking Glass

Marc Casals takes a look at Mirko Kovač‘s novel The City in the Mirror, a classic of post-Yugoslav literature that is yet to appear in English translation

17.06.2020.

Living the Dream

Central Europe, Milan Kundera and Yugoslavia

17.06.2020.

Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb

Višnja Vukašinović looks back at a classic modernist novel about holidays gone horribly wrong

04.11.2019.

Rebel Rebel

The time is ripe to rediscover the work of cult Croatian writer Janko Polić Kamov

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

10.3.2016.

Ruritania returns

The time is ripe for a rereading of Gregor von Rezzori, one of Central Europe’s most distinctive voices