In his preface to this latest in Comma’s Reading the City series, one of Reykjavik’s greatest literary exports, Sjón, describes his native city in equivocal terms – a ‘mis
In Disquiet a brief tragic love affair illuminates the plight of Yezidi refugees, surviving genocide only to be subjected to prejudice, indifference and rejection in their would-be
Karolina, or the Torn Curtain is a witty and engaging historical murder mystery, a clever pastiche of British golden-age crime fiction projected onto an earlier time and a distant
So much has been written about Hitler’s Germany that it’s easy to forget that much of it is non-fiction. The Passenger is a rare exception: it’s a novel and written during th
Most of us have had or will have to deal with a situation such as the one described in Wicha’s book: going through things that someone dear to us has left behind. The closer and
Termites have got it right. This is Bruno Latour’s assessment in After Lockdown, a radical, stirring and at times discombobulating vision of Earthly life in a post-pandemic world
My Russian-bred grandmother’s favourite adjective for describing a writer she truly admired was остроу́мный [ostro-úmny]. It was the highest compliment in her reg
The ELNet Riveting Reviews team generally takes August off, but this year, well, you know … So we are bringing you a selection of some of the best European books in English trans
