Adalbert Stifter’s View of Oberplan (1823). (Courtesy of the Wikimedia Foundation / Sammlung Adalbert Stifter Geburtshaus) Reporting from Vienna on May Day, 1844, the Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter ...

Susan Choi's latest book is My Education. Long, long ago — maybe some time in the 17th century — and far, far away — but almost certainly somewhere in the Alps — two valleys lay next to each other, ...

Last year, Stanford University Press published a selection of Hannah Arendt’s essays on the arts under the title “Reflections on Literature and Culture.” One of the pieces in the volume was Arendt’s ...

Motley Stones, a collection of short stories by the 19th-century Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter, is one of the strangest books I have ever read. Not strange in form or style — the style is muted, ...

Adalbert Stifter, trans. from the German by Isabel Fargo Cole. New York Review Books, $17.95 trade paper (296p) ISBN 978-1-68137-520-5 This cycle of novellas by pioneering nature writer Stifter ...

It's hard to describe Heiner Goebbels' homage to the Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter (1805-1868), whose descriptions of the natural world have been admired by generations of writers – from Rainer ...

Motley Stones. By Adalbert Stifter. Translated by Isabel Fargo Cole. New York Review Books; 288 pages; $17.95 and £14.99 THE AUTHOR of these stories was an Austrian bureaucrat, known locally as a ...

A German avant-garde composer and theatre director; a performance inspired by the nature writings of an obscure 19th-century Austrian romantic writer; a venue in a underground bunker off London's ...

Drawing from its own collection, the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere (“Belvedere”) has organized an exhibition about the development of oil sketches from the early 19th century through the early ...