Happy New Year, and welcome to January’s Riveting Reviews. We start the year with our usual eclectic mix of reviews…

January 2023
Imagine if the things around you could talk. The chair you’re sitting on, the mug you might be drinking tea…
The experimental crime novel, or literary foray into the form, which challenges tropes and upends structure is nothing new. The…
Georges Simenon inspired many writers of psychological crime, such as Patricia Highsmith (as she once told me at a publisher’s…
Ferit Edgü is an award-winning Turkish author with a diverse literary career spanning decades and including poetry, short stories, biography,…
Set in the village of Lipce in the Russian Partition area of Poland in the 1880s, The Peasants is no…
Georgi Gospodinov has written only three novels in his three decades of writing – Time Shelter is his third –…