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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...