Few books from the German-speaking world have elicited such excitement in recent years as Nelio Biederman’s Lázár. A magical realist saga chronicling the decline and fall of an
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France has blocked accession negotiations between Albania and the EU. A French journalist, Colette Delacroix, goes to Tirana to interview the Albanian prime minister about the veto
Robert Menasse, who was born in Vienna in 1954, is a novelist and essayist. His non-fiction output has focused on cultural theory, Austrian identity and, more recently, the Europea
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2023 marks the centenary of the publication of Pan-Europa. Pan-Europa, a manifesto for the movement of the same name, which envisaged the creation of a unified European state, was
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