Anna Maria Ortese’s Evening Descends Upon the Hills is a book that, Atlas-like, seems to bear on its shoulders the…
July 2018
Fasten your seat-belts for a bumpy ride. This is a book that plunges you into the volcano of history, then…
The title says it all: smoking kills – though in the case of this novel, the victim is not the…
Jenny Aaron calls herself a policewoman but the reality is much more complex: ‘Her body is a weapon.’ As a…
I keep staring at the titles of Ilzė Butkutė’s two poetry collections – Caravan Lullabies and Carnival Moon – and…
If I had been told when I first read Mircea Eliade’s Gaudeamus, years ago as a teenager in Romania, that…
One of five Dag Solstad novels now translated into English (at the latest count there are 33 books by this…
The Hogarth Shakespeare project is bringing us a whole series of modern authors’ re-versions of Shakespeare’s plays, from Margaret Atwood’s…
Best known for creating the Moomin stories for children, writer and artist Tove Jansson was also the author of ten…
Amid the turmoil of the current discussions about Europe, this month – as every month – we provide a moment…
