Somewhere in Austria’s Burgenland, the territory pressed hard up against the border with Hungary, the town […]
The Hidden Book, by Kirsty Manning
Have you ever seen a flip book? Most people have. If you haven’t, Wikipedia will […]
The Nameless Ones, by John Connolly
I’ve been dipping in and out of the Charlie Parker series for years, ever since […]
Journeys, by Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig’s writing seems to be everywhere since The Grand Budapest Hotel came out. Zweig […]
Reckonings, by Mary Fulbrook
In Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice, Mary Fulbrook concentrates on the […]
The Winter Soldier, by Daniel Mason
If Gavrilo Princip had not fired the shot that started World War I, Lucius Krzelewski […]
The Sojourn, by Andrew Krivak
It might seem strange to begin and end a book about a soldier and a […]
To Die in Spring, by Ralf Rothmann
In 1915, an iconic recruitment ad appeared in Britain in which a child asks, “Daddy, […]
Time’s Arrow, by Martin Amis
In physics, the “arrow of time” is a metaphor for time and entropy first coined […]
The Chosen Ones, by Steven Sem-Sandberg
Steven Sem-Sandberg’s The Chosen Ones (translated by Anna Paterson) is a difficult book to read. First, there […]