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, ...

There’s a convincing argument in literary studies that the form of fiction we now call the “novel” was born out of bourgeois culture, out of the historical rise of literacy and leisure time for a once ...

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 ...

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 ...