Category: Reviews

There are books that someone plans and writes in an orderly fashion about a particular topic. There are others that seem to write themselves and grow, guided more or less blindly, by the power of an obsession. Some years ago,...

For Gregor von Rezzori the past was not another country, it was several. His Mitteleuropean homeland, engulfed by successive tidal waves of history, became as remote and mysterious as Atlantis in just a few decades. When von...