Beware of Pity – Says Forgotten Austrian Novelist
“Beware of Pity.” Who would think to proffer such advice, in a novel no less, repeatedly and in great detail? …
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Franz Kafka: Lost in Prague and finding “Lost in America”
The best way to get a city, for me, is to put away the maps and follow promising promenades and …
Reading Vienna
In the quieter and cooler hours between visiting museums, decoding monuments, walking the hot wide avenues of Vienna I …
Croatian Nights — New Fiction from Croatia
My literary companion during 5 days in Croatia has been Croatian Nights a joint effort of 19 stories by Croatian and British …
Reading Prague
Prague, as every traveler will tell you, is a wonderful town, full of surprises and visual delights. It is full of improbable …
Canal Reading — In Amsterdam
The rain is pelting down as as I take my first steps around Amsterdam, the Venice of the North as some …
The Mehlis Report – A Novel of Beirut
Since the world changed for Americans on Sept 11, 2001 I have made an effort to include fiction and history …
The Dentist as Observer – in Egypt
Alaa al Aswany, author of the remarkable novel, “The Yacoubian Building,” from which a very good 2006 film was made, …