As readers we often feel a sense of melancholy when we come to the end of a book we have enjoyed. That sense of loss is unnervingly heightened when we finish a novel only for the a
“In early autumn the swallows leave the North. They criss-cross the sky in wide sweeping ribbons, drop away, dart side to side in the air, soar up again effortlessly, full of str
#RivetingReviews: John Munch reviews MESSAGES FROM A LOST WORLD. EUROPE ON THE BRINK by Stefan Zweig
Crushed into oblivion by the iron-clad Nazi subjugation of Europe and the vagaries of literary taste, Stefan Zweig now basks in an omnipresent afterglow. There’s been a surge of
This month our #RivetingReviewers have read new books from Germany, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands and – very fittingly in these EU-tense times – a book subtitled Europe on Th
A Tale of Two Translations Published by Yale University Press It may seem an odd thing to do: within a single year to publish two separate translations of the same novel. But Yale
With this review we start our new RR venture – presenting books not yet translated into English, but worth it. Recommended for Translation Dygot by Jakub Małecki Pub
