Stefan Zweig

Turkish historians have lashed out at the world's richest man Elon Musk for his "1453 Constantinople" tweet, hinting that Istanbul was conquered, not with a military victory, but due to an open gate forgotten by Byzantine soldiers.

Composer Giorgos Kouroupos turns Stefan Zweig's 1929 short story "Leporella" into an opus for the Greek National Opera's alternative stage at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in southern Athens. The opera is in Greek and will be accompanied by English surtitles.

The Onassis Cultural Center will be live-streaming a new co-production by the Complicite and Schaubuehne theater companies of Simon McBurney's take on Stefan Zweig's "Βeware of Pity" from London's Barbican on Sunday, February 12. The performance, in German with English subtitles, will be live-streamed on the center's website, starting at 5 p.m. and available through February 26.

Two Bulgarian novels, "The Black Box" and "Mission London" by Alek Popov, have been included in a list of the best European indie novels in support of the UK remaining in the EU, Alison Flood writes in a blog post in The Guardian.