Explaining ‘The Magician’ Explaining ‘The Magician’
Thomas Mann's popularity has been going the way of the Buddenbrooks family business. It is in decline.
Jan 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter
Racism: Coded as Culture? Racism: Coded as Culture?
This book makes a good case for racism--the word, not the ideology. What necessitated a defense?
Oct 10, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter
Vienna: Waltz or Go-Go? Vienna: Waltz or Go-Go?
Exile is the best school of dialectics. --Bertolt Brecht Peter Gay emigrated from Germany when he was a teenager and work...
Jan 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter
Holocaust Imponderables Holocaust Imponderables
Paul Reitter reviews Essays on Hitler's Europe, by István Deák.
Dec 7, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter
Gender Unbender Gender Unbender
Pierre Bourdieu's newsworthiness has become news. The profile of him in the New York Times deals more with how bright his star is than with its substance, and quite a bit of the a...
Jul 12, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter
The Führer Furor The Führer Furor
Chaplinesque Rapscallion New Leader of Germany's National Socialist Party --The Onion "I have nothing to say about Hitler." With this...
Jan 5, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter
Hitler’s Viennese Waltz Hitler’s Viennese Waltz
"Austria had many geniuses, and that was probably its undoing." --Robert Musil
Jul 22, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter