When Ruth Schwarz’s parents are killed in a car crash, it is only the first of many shocks. The second…
The Austrian Riveter
Compelling, fast-paced and self-aware, Doris Knecht’s The Message is a deftly told novel by a writer at the top of…
Löwenherz (‘Lionheart’) is the final instalment in Monika Helfer’s trilogy of autobiographical novels, a fascinatingly lucid body of literature that…
Readers seeking a new take on the familiar themes of guilt and memory need look no further than Darkenbloom, the…
From Elfriede Jelinek to Ingeborg Bachmann, Marianne Fritz to Friederike Mayröcker, the Austrian literary canon contains the names of many…
This land needs a lot of airspace for its blessed spirits to move freely above the waters. In some areas…