How to write about a man best known for telling his own story? Today, Primo Levi is viewed as one of our most important witnesses of Nazi atrocities. Writing in what Philip Roth de
Johny Pitts’ splendid reportage manages to be both engaging and disturbing. He makes contact with black Europeans in several major cities and in Afropean recounts their experienc
‘And we agreed, Mam and me to share The Blue Book of Nebo. She’ll write about the olden days and The End, and I’ll write about now, about how we live. And we’ve
This brilliant short novel by Sara Mesa primarily takes place among the hedges where a thirteen-year-old girl, who we only know as Soon, finds refuge from school. Each day she sett
L’anomalie first came onto my radar back in late summer 2020, when Hervé Le Tellier’s logic-defying tale of a transatlantic flight that is duplicated during a freak storm –
The Daughter of the City: Steps of Istanbul by Nurduran Duman I learned the loves of cities get knotted into breakups at the estuary so now when I come to Beyoğlu I keep an
Originally published in 1969, Precursor tells the story of the philosopher Hryhoriy Skovoroda who lived from 1722 to 1794. Following its success, the book’s author, Vasyl Shevchu
Kapo reflects on the darkest recesses of a mind warped by childhood prejudice and splintered by the experience of the Auschwitz death camp. Any novel focusing on the Holocaust is a
This is a real bomb of a book. In fact I think it should come with a warning on the cover, something along the lines of ‘Handle with care. Highly explosive’. It simply whacks t
When The Last One by Fatima Daas was first published in France in 2020, the twenty-five-year-old author was hailed as the voice of a new generation. In the novel, the pseudonymous
