What do I know about the Faroes? A lot more after reading Walpurgis Tide! What did I know? That they’re Danish, that’s to say, part of Denmark; they’re in the North Atlantic,
Shortly before his death in 1985, Italo Calvino drafted Six Memos for the Next Millennium, his series of Norton Lectures for Harvard University (previous speakers included T. S. El
Post-millennium Croatia is the setting for Olja Savičević‘s brooding, bleak novel Farewell, Cowboy, translated by Celia Hawkesworth, charting the story of a young woman’s
Discussing his series of bestselling crime novels at the ‘European Literature Festival’ this May in London, German author Volker Kutscher reflected on his decision to set the f
Swann’s Way is the first book in Marcel Proust’s seven-volume novel. In his introduction to this comic-strip version, the translator Arthur Goldhammer welcomes “the reader ne
Our childhood memories do not always tally with real events. Often it is only years later that we realise the true significance of our earliest experiences. This is the premise of
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