The turning point in W.G. Sebald’s latest novel, “Austerlitz,” comes when the title character wanders into the disused Ladies Waiting Room at the Liverpool Street Station in London sometime in the ...

“Cool story, bro.” It’s the most trivial of visual details, glimpsed at the edge of one of “Austerlitz’s” many exactingly composed frames. Yet once you see it, it’s all you can look at: That ...

I enjoyed W.G. Sebald's discursive journey through East Anglia, The Rings of Saturn, but the title of Austerlitz, absurdly, put me off. I assumed it would be a ramble, a bit like The Rings, only ...

The latest documentary from the much-acclaimed Sergei Loznitsa looks at visitors to the sites of former Nazi death camps. By Neil Young Few filmmakers have ever segued back and forth between fiction ...

A Jewish scholar crisscrosses Europe as he searches for his forgotten past, with the journey taking him to the edge of his limits. The book is considered one of the most important works of post-WWII ...