Born in Hungary in the late nineteenth century, Kate Seredy, author and illustrator, is best remembered for the books she wrote about her homeland, especially the 1938 Newbery Medal-winner, The White Stag. The only child of Louis Peter Seredy, a schoolte...

'IF WE have a child," says Nela to her lover, Mitica, "it will be either a genius or an idiot." "If it turns out normal," answers Mitica, "I'll strangle it with my bare hands." So ends The Oak, the movie with which the Rumanian...

We can all identify the common oak when it reaches maturity. It is brash to the point of brutality: a massive beast without a straight line in it, all elbows and thumbs, pushing out its arms sideways as though each tree was determined to...