Austria

Vicky Krieps is superb as the intense, prickly Austrian empress

The Appalachian Alpine town offers a blissful escape from midterm attack ads

The Austrian government seems unable to grasp nuance

From the sounds of Strauss to the stories of Joseph Roth

It says much about the endemic moral cowardice of Europe that Emmanuel Macron is being hailed as the savior of the continent. For what? For having the audacity to utter a single word: ‘Islamism’. In identifying the ideology behind the wave of brutal terrorism that has swept Europe this century, Macron has also shown more … Read more

A frothy tour of Vienna’s coffeehouses

Some of the old-timers who you might expect to be in tune with Bruckner’s Eighth now seem rather superficial, including Bruno Walter and Otto Klemperer