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Liam Hoare

A freelance writer on politics and literature based in Vienna. He is the Europe editor for Moment and a frequent contributor to Slate, The Forward and Tablet.
Books

Sylvia Petter’s All the Beautiful Liars Details the Hunt for Answers in Postwar Vienna

In Sylvia Petter’s debut novel All the Beautiful Liars, Katrina Klain arrives in Vienna in search of the lost pieces of her life.
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Martin Rady’s “The Habsburgs” Recounts The Family’s Rise and Fall

Martyn Rady’s new history of the Habsburgs argues that their empire was undone by the very things that once made it mighty.
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Culture

Letters from the Anschluss in Elisabeth Åsbrink’s New Book

A history and a memoir, the Swedish journalist's And in the Vienna Woods the Trees Remain is the story of a family, reconciling the past, and the power of friendship over politics.
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Diplomacy

Family Unification & Custody Cases Are Slower & Harder

Bringing relatives back together accounts for a third of all migration into the European Union. In Austria, the process is becoming ever more restrictive.
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Winter 2019

Book Review | The Painted Face

Love and Desire, War and Human Suffering in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina.
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Reconsidering Thomas Bernhard

On the 30th anniversary of his death, the Austrian author’s acerbic wit still cuts through the pomposities and pettiness of a society hiding from itself.
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Who Owns Kafka’s Legacy?

The struggle over a rich literary inheritance opens questions of identity regarding the seminal writer, a Czech who was also Jewish but wrote in Germa...
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Online

FPÖ’s Vilimsky tells ORF’s Armin Wolf: ‘This is the last straw!’

Colleagues and opposition politicians defended ORF star journalist and anchor Armin Wolf after a contentious interview with Freedom Party general secr...
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Culture

Vienna’s New Wave of Political Theater

The return of the Thursday demonstrations to Vienna’s streets last October heralded a reawakening of Austrian protest culture. Between climate change ...
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The Ironies of History

In Éric Vuillard’s award-winning historical novel The Order of the Day, an absurd and tragic encounter seals Austria’s fate. The hour grows late ...
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Online

“You’re a Young Guy” | Kurz Meets Trump

Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz described his meeting with United States president Donald Trump Wednesday as “very disputatious” in an interview wi...
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Culture Books | November

Anna Seghers’ Morality Play Available in English for the first time, The Seventh Cross addresses the damage and deep divisions of ordinary life under...
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Explore Vienna

Turnhalle Café | Hidden Cornucopia

In a crowded brunch landscape, Turnhalle im brick5 offers exceptional organic fare in a relaxed environment. When the doors to Turnhalle im brick...
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Saving the White Stallions

How the US Army helped preserve the famed Lipizzaners in the final days of WWII. Weeks from the end of the Second World War, a rogue unit of the Am...
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After Europe | Ivan Krastev’s Doomsday Prognosis for the EU

In After Europe, Ivan Krastev argues that the refugee crisis is Europe’s gravest threat Europe is in crisis and Ivan Kras...
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Edith Sheffer’s ‘Asperger’s Children’ Reveals ‘The Origins of Autism i...

Edith Sheffer updates the record on the famed Austrian physician to chilling effect As a pioneer of autistic psychopathy, Hans Asperger has a ben...
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Restaurants

Florentin 1090 is the Newest Addition to Vienna’s Israeli Restaurants

Florentin 1090 joins the growing number of Israeli restaurants, but remains behind the competition. Between Ottolenghi in London, Miznon in Par...
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Michael Köhlmeier’s Yiza Looks at the Refugee Crisis from a Child’s Perspective

In Yiza the Austrian author Michael Köhlmeier looks at the refugee crisis from a child’s perspective. Michael Köhlmeier’s startling new novella...
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Special Report

Special Report | Can Austria Help Bring the Balkans Into the EU?

Can Austria help bring Southeastern Europe into the EU’s fold? After all, as State Chancellor Klemens von Metternich knew, “the Balkans begin at Rennw...
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Books | Mayerling Revisited: Rebuilding the Story of Crown Prince Rudolf’s Murder-Suicide with...

Debunking myths of the murder-suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf and his lover You know the story – or, you think you know it. With the scene...
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Books | Discover Arthur Schnitzler’s Forgotten Novella: Late Fame

Arthur Schnitzler’s forgotten novella is released in English, in a stylish translation by Alexander Starritt Arthur Schni...
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Recipes

Britwurst Brings British Breakfast Sausages to Vienna

An expat has made a tidy business out of delivering tasty traditional British breakfast sausages to hungry Viennese Richa...
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International

Amid Raids and Arrests, Catalonia Wants to Break Free from Spain

The October independence referendum is rattling Spain and inspiring secessionist movements across Europe. For better and worse, it’s all about the EU ...
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Opinion

Opinion | The Troubled State of the Austrian Left

With the Greens absorbed in internecine warfare, the prospects for a progressive left agenda look increasingly dim With just a month until the pa...
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In Sylvia Petter’s debut novel All the Beautiful Liars, Katrina Klain arrives in Vienna in search of the lost pieces of her life.
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