This month we have an astonishingly broad sweep of countries, languages, cultures – and Riveting Reviewers! Along with old hands…

Dec 2017
Ari Thór Arason is back in this sixth novel in the Dark Iceland series; back in his old job in…
Nicola Lagioia’s Ferocity claims to belong to a counter-tradition of fiction as an anti-story, of narratives transcending and transgressing the…
In this slim, rather beautiful book, with its conflagrated, scarlet binding, Giorgio van Straten treats us to a quiet firework…
As co-hostess of German Literature Month, November is, of course, the highlight of my reading year. Despite having over 200…
Twice a year, on mountain roads and tracks all over the world, sheep and livestock make their way between alpine…