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The Private Adolf Loos
Lively, snapshot-like vignettes form an intimate, literary portrait of the infamously eccentric and influential modern architect Adolf Loos.Written by Loos’ third wife, the …
A Stranger at My Table
"A touching, contemplative chronicle of loss and self-discovery."– Publishers WeeklyFrom the acclaimed biographer of Norway’s most treasured cultural icons, Henrik Ibsen and Edvard …
The Ghetto Swinger
"From his early enthusiasm for American jazz in Berlin cabarets to his membership of Terezin's celebrated Ghetto Swingers and surviving Auschwitz through his music, to post-war …
Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Odyssey
Charts Wittgenstein’s intellectual development, personal struggles, and movements from Vienna to Cambridge and Norway, and to the battlegrounds of WWI, where he completed what was …
Jonas Mekas, Shiver of Memory
The texture of memory and the ability of art and film to bear witness to traumatic events are delicately approached in this book-length essay by a Mekas cinephile. For years, …
Allies Against Two Evils
An eye-witness account of the Russian/European conflict at the heart of WWII, relevant today as war rages again along similar battle lines in Ukraine, Crimea and the Caucasus.In a …
Dancing on Thin Ice
In this memoir, replete with Jewish humor and sardonic Russian irony, exiled Russian journalist and human rights advocate Arkady Polishchuk (b. 1930) colorfully narrates his …
Escape Home
"Intimate and scholarly...Patient readers will be rewarded. An encyclopedic and epistolary family history, a eulogy for pre-Reich Vienna and an ode to midcentury modernism." -- …
Malva
The abandoned daughter of Pablo Neruda speaks through “incandescent poetic prose full of magical realism, biographical details and psychological insight." Winner of the Fintro …
Chocolates from Tangier
A second-generation Holocaust survivor weaves together fragments of her family’s history and witness testimony in narrative and collage, using her art as transformation and …