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“... America?’Patti Hartigan’s​  rookie 530-page biography of Wilson brings to mind a line from Karl Kraus: ‘No ideas and the ability to express them, that’s a journalist.’ Hartigan, who was a theatre reviewer for the Boston Globe, is passionate about her subject, indefatigable in her pursuit of anecdote and, as she told the Provincetown ...”

“... not only in writing well about him but contributing in Schmock (2001), pointed reflections on Karl Kraus and modern journalism, to a common enterprise.Bourdieu’s intransigence was a refusal to bend within the social sciences. But a similar sensibility can be seen in the better French cinema of recent years: films such as Laurent Cantet’s ...”

“... care for. And in any case trust is rarely exciting. In ‘Words are also deeds’ (a sentence of Karl Kraus’s), Stern touches on word-play as a compensatory activity practised by that endangered species, German-writing Jews of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and also the ‘linguistic unease’ (and hence creativeness) of non-Jewish writers like ...”