November 12, 2021: The opening day for the Christkindlmarkt dawned mild and hazy. At a table by the window at Café Landtmann, my 4-year-old daughter and I were having breakfast, and looking out onto the grey, rainy mist. Over our 14 years …
In The Murder of Professor Schlick, author David Edmonds recreates the compelling history of Vienna’s contributions to scientific philosophy. The book will come out in paperback on March 29, 2022.
To say that Angus Robertson knows Vienna well would be an understatement. Bilingual thanks to his German mother and Scottish father, he moved to Vienna in 1991 as a journalist for the Austrian public broadcaster, ORF, and returned as Austrian …
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In this special exhibition, the Literaturmuseum explores how both Stefan Zweig and his stories travelled across the world.
In Snow Country, a new novel by Sebastian Faulks, readers learn about love and consciousness in Austria’s interwar chaos.
Insightful and heartfelt, the book was honored for its success at capturing the struggles of growing up.
A collection of Billy Wilder’s work as a reporter in Vienna and Berlin reveals his early influences and the verve of the roaring ’20s.
A far-sighted study on the language of Nazism, the book by Austria’s great satirist is finally available in a full English translation.
A host of independent publishers and translators are introducing some of Austria’s key literary voices to the Anglosphere.
In local author Keith Gray’s latest novel, a group of small-town teenagers shed their childhoods as a tree sheds its leaves
The Austrian writer’s enchanting short stories reveal his love of nature in elegantly simple prose
While the Great Powers wrestled over the fate of the Adriatic city-state of Fiume, its residents had their own sense of who they were, argues historian Dominique K. Reill.
Anne Applebaum introduces us to the elites responsible for democratic backsliding in her new book, Twilight of Democracy.
Best known as the author of a children’s classic and (possibly) a pornographic novel, Felix Salten has never been given his due in his hometown – until now, that is
Set in the gloaming of the Habsburg Empire, Katja Perat’s ardent debut novel is a fictional coming-of-age memoir from the daughter of the world’s first “masochist.”
In Sylvia Petter’s debut novel All the Beautiful Liars, Katrina Klain arrives in Vienna in search of the lost pieces of her life.
Close-knit ties triumph over
trauma in Anna Goldenberg’s moving family memoir of torture, exile and ultimate homecoming.
The bestseller by a society caterer and celebrity chef in interwar Vienna was aryanized, her name erased from history. Now, a century later, her granddaughter reveals her story.
Martyn Rady’s new history of the Habsburgs argues that their empire was undone by the very things that once made it mighty.
“The Light that Failed: A Reckoning” by IWM fellow Ivan Krastev and NYU professor Stephen
Holmes explains what went wrong with Western liberalism.
Wife, mother, traveler – humble but headstrong Ida Pfeiffer took the world by storm by circumnavigating the globe her way.
In Tyll, widely-acclaimed German-Austrian author Daniel Kehlmann reinvents a medieval legend to unmask the fatuity of rulers and the wisdom of tricks.
Yale professor Frank Snowden’s sweeping analysis of pandemics over the centuries concludes that while science advances, people do not.
Wolfgang Siemann draws on newly discovered notes and letters to paint a more nuanced portrait of diplomat and statesman Klemens von Metternich.
Robert Musil’s epic Austrian classic gets cut down to size to explore love and identity across the boundaries of self.
In his first foray into cultural criticism, musician Dave Randall
calls upon his readers to think outside the jukebox.
Love and Desire, War and Human Suffering in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina.
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.
Philipp Blom sets out to demonstrate how rapid climate change can dramatically upset our social and economic structures, our everyday lives. It has happened before, in 17th century Europe. Historians are rarely content just to chronicle facts; they look for …
The struggle over a rich literary inheritance opens questions of identity regarding the seminal writer, a Czech who was also Jewish but wrote in German of Habsburg-era Prague. At four in the morning on March 15, 1939, Max Brod crossed …
In A Rich Brew, Shachar Pinsker makes a convincing case for the role of cafés in fostering a golden age of Jewish culture. In any guidebook about Vienna, the Kaffeehaus holds a place of honor, a sort of people’s club, …
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 and Austria’s dictatorial Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg arrives at the Eagle’s Nest, Adolf Hitler’s mountaintop retreat high above …
Robert Menasse’s award-winning The Capital is a dark but affectionate satire on the European idea. Robert Menasse has long been preoccupied with the implications of historical crisis for social cohesion. A provocative yet eloquent critic of the Austrian political and …
BOOK PRESENTATION | From Empire to Republic It’s been 100 years since the Habsburg Empire dissolved into several new, independent republics. Over the past year, Metropole featured a different one of these successor states in every issue of the magazine, as loyal …
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Home Town Media presents From Empire to Republic Thanks for attending the event at Buchhandlung Kuppitsch Schottengasse 4, 1010 Wien In case you missed it, here you can buy Home Town Media’s latest book From Empire to Republic. It provides …
Arno Geiger’s playful and moving memoir “The Old King in his Exile” discovers a world of imagination in his father’s dementia. There are probably few things that touch us more fundamentally than the loss of a parent. Through the creeping …
Anna Seghers’ Morality Play Available in English for the first time, The Seventh Cross addresses the damage and deep divisions of ordinary life under the Nazis Seven political prisoners escape from the (fictional) Westhofen concentration camp in the Rhineland in …
To Vienna, with Love In Kevin Wignall’s new thriller, Vienna takes the spotlight and steals the show With a name like To Die in Vienna, Kevin Wignall’s new novel might give the impression of being one of those dark, death-obsessed …
In Rebel Modernists, Liane Lefaivre traces 120 years of Viennese design since Otto Wagner.
How the US Army helped preserve the famed Lipizzaners in the final days of WWII.
Tim Hadley details just how much the German General Staff knew about the weaknesses of the Austrian-Hungarian army
Benjamin Black’s addictive new thriller re-creates an irresistible world of sex and sorcery in 16th century Prague
In After Europe, Ivan Krastev argues that the refugee crisis is Europe’s gravest threat
70 years later, the Marshall Plan remains a model for foreign aid policy in everybody’s interest.
Edith Sheffer updates the record on the famed Austrian physician to chilling effect
Maja Haderlap’s debut novel Angel of Oblivion confronts the past in Austria’s borderlands.
Karl Sigmund’s new book Exact Thinking in Demented Times tells the dramatic history of an intellectual revolution.
In Yiza the Austrian author Michael Köhlmeier looks at the refugee crisis from a child’s perspective.
Laura Spinney’s Pale Rider is a portrait of the life and science of the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918.
In “Orban: Europe’s New Strongman” Paul Lendvai tracks the ambition of the increasingly authoritarian Hungarian prime minister.
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