What do I know about the Faroes? A lot more after reading Walpurgis Tide! What did I know? That they’re…
Jun 2016
Shortly before his death in 1985, Italo Calvino drafted Six Memos for the Next Millennium, his series of Norton Lectures…
Post-millennium Croatia is the setting for Olja Savičević‘s brooding, bleak novel Farewell, Cowboy, translated by Celia Hawkesworth, charting the story…
Discussing his series of bestselling crime novels at the ‘European Literature Festival’ this May in London, German author Volker Kutscher…
Swann’s Way is the first book in Marcel Proust’s seven-volume novel. In his introduction to this comic-strip version, the translator…
Our childhood memories do not always tally with real events. Often it is only years later that we realise the…