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…