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Stefan-Zweig

Film Review: “Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe” — Fragments From an Exile

Maria Schrader has set herself a very ambitious agenda in Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Culture Vulture, Goethe Institut-Boston, Maria Schrader, Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe, Stefan-Zweig

Film Commentary: Wes Anderson, Stefan Zweig, and Discovering the Value of “The World of Yesterday”

Perhaps a movie such as “The Grand Budapest Hotel, which is much more than a zany comedy, can lead us back, as director Wes Anderson may have intended, to the fabulous writing of Stefan Zweig.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Film, German literature, literature in translation, Stefan-Zweig, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The World of Yesterday, Wes Anderson

Book Review: The “Three Lives” of Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig’s was a dramatic, action-packed, intense epic of a life, but Oliver Matuschek’s biography, Three Lives, simply plods along.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Culture Vulture, German literature, Oliver Matuschek, Pushkin Press, Stefan-Zweig, Three Lives: A Biography of Stefan Zweig

Theater Review Round-up: Our Man in London

It should be pointed out that in London it is possible to see more shows in a limited time than one can do in the United States. Why? Because it has long been the sensible practice to stagger weekday matinees. By Caldwell Titcomb Shakespeare first, of course. The British quite rightly never tire of “Hamlet.” […]

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Books, Featured, Theater Tagged: “The Black Album, All's Well That Ends Well, Anton Chekhov, Arcadia, Bridge Project, Caldwell-Titcomb, Carrie's War, Caryl Churchill, Collaboration, Cottesloe, Dreams of Violence, Duet for One, Dysfunctional Family, England People Very Nice, Ethan Hawke, Francesca Annis, Hamlet, Hanif Kureishi, Helen Mirren, Henry Goodman, J. B. Priestley, Jerusalem, Jez Butterworth, Jude Law, Juliet Stevenson, Katori Hall, Lyttleton, Mark Rylance, Matt Charman, Max Stafford-Clark, Michael Grandage, Michael Morporgo, National-Theatre, Nazis, Nicholas Hytner, Olivier, Phèdre, Racine, Rebecca Hall, Richard Bean, Richard Strauss, Richard Wilbur, Ronald Harwood, Sam Mendes, Simon Russell Beale, Sinéad Cusack, Sir Richard Eyre, Stefan-Zweig, Stella Feehily, Ted Hughes, The Cherry Orchard, The Mountaintop, The Observer, The Silent Woman, The-Winters-Tale, Three More Sleepless Nights, tom-stoppard, War Horse, William Shakeseare, Wyndham Theatre

Book Review: “Zugzwang”and the Pleasures of Chess Noir

By Harvey Blume Zugzwang,by Ronan Bennett (Bloomsbury USA, 288 pages) It’s an understatement to say chess has been good for literature; the game has even inspired people not known for the written word to produce memorable prose. Consider the following, for example, by composer Sergey Prokofiev apropos a game he witnessed in pre-World War I […]

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Books, chess, fiction, novel, Ronan-Bennet, Short Fuse, Stefan-Zweig, vladimir-nabokov, Zugzwang

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