Author Archive
October 11, 2022Victor Sebestyen is a refugee from Hungary, and his Budapest is a book that conveys a longing for the life he might have led if circumstances had been different....
September 30, 2022Peace and stability in Europe, as Otto von Bismarck, the German chancellor and a master of statecraft, once believed, depended on making a good treaty between Germany and Russia. The...
August 30, 2022From the 13th century till the end of World War I, a Habsburg ruled the Austro-Hungarian Empire with Vienna as its capital city. For a couple of centuries, another branch of the...
June 13, 2022Louis-Ferdinand Céline is probably the most influential French author of the last hundred years. Guerre, which means “war,” is a novel that he wrote and...
May 13, 2022Fancying himself as “an adventurer-correspondent of the old school,” Paul Kenyon in 1994 accepted an assignment from the bbc to go to Romania to investigate a...
