A cigar is never just a cigar where Sigmund Freud is concerned. The father of psychoanalysis serves as a supporting character in “The Tobacconist” — and none other than the great Bruno Ganz embodies ...

Mike Cafagno, owner of the Tobacconist of Greenwich, is no stranger to awards — his shop has been recognized by the world’s most luxurious cigar brand, Davidoff of Geneva, as the merchant with the ...

Veteran actor Bruno Ganz plays Sigmund Freud in 'The Tobacconist,' a coming-of-age story set in Vienna on the eve of World War II. By Stephen Farber A World War II-era story told with unusual ...

He works in mysterious ways.

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In his moving 2014 novel A Whole Life, Robert Seethaler tells the tale of a man’s life spent almost entirely in a ...

Straus Tobacconist could soon go up in smoke. The local refuge for those who enjoy a fine cigar may be a thing of the past real soon. Just another downtown business to disappear. But this one has some ...

The Tobacconist has been selling cigars for 40 years, and customers at the Greenwich store have always been able to find a leather chair to sneak a puff. But soon they will have a new, more ...

In his 2014 novel A Whole Life, first translated into English last year and subsequently shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, the Austrian-born, Berlin-based writer Robert Seethaler ...

Mary Lynn Kane vows to change the cigar industry's attitude about women smokers - one puff at a time. As the owner of Lake Country Cigars in Delafield and a cigar smoker of 29 years, Kane, of ...

A naive Austrian lad moves to the big city, where he befriends Freud at the moment the Germans occupy Vienna, in this sentimental parable. A cigar is never just a cigar where Sigmund Freud is ...