Tara Isabella Burton

Tara Isabella Burton is working on a doctorate in literature and theology as a Clarendon Scholar at Trinity College, Oxford. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in National Geographic Traveler, The Paris Review Daily, The Atlantic, Electric Literature, and more.

The Lost World of Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig longs for more than Vienna in 1900- it's the world of childhood, of illusions, and faith in human goodness the world so often denies....

TARA ISABELLA BURTON

The Rotted Heart of Sin

TODAY, THE NOVELISTS and short story writers that comprise the canon of French Decadence — delineated, loosely, as beginning with Barbey D'Aurevilly in the mid 1840's and ending with the death of Joris-Karl Huysmans in 1907 — are all too often forgotten, or ...

TARA ISABELLA BURTON

What Fourth Wall?

On "Sleep No More," Punchdrunk theater company's reimagining of "Macbeth"...

TARA ISABELLA BURTON