Welcome to our March #RivetingReviews. Delayed slightly this month by the London Book Fair, we nevertheless have our usual intelligent…
March 2019
A teenage girl, eyes glinting, fixes the camera with a quizzical gaze. The young Magda Szirtes manages to combine youthful…
The Last Day is essentially a set of thought experiments, in which an individual is pitted against the strictures of…
Fleur Jaeggy’s fictions are often about lonely, adolescent girls and their dysfunctional families, and Proleterka follows this pattern. Beautifully nuanced…
The second rider (of the four horsemen of the apocalypse) is war, and ‘War has a long arm. Long after…
The fact that Olivier Barde-Cabuçon’s Casanova and the Faceless Woman has been the recipient of France’s prestigious Prix Sangre d’Encre…
The influence of the late British Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, continues to this day – and in countries other…
The ascent of Thomas Enger – both in terms of critical approbation and sales – has been swift, but it…
The Capital, in Jamie Bulloch’s superb translation, arrives for the English-speaking reader at a delicate time. Two years after it…
The subject of Laurent Gaudé’s novel Hear Our Defeats is the cultural catastrophe that accompanied the rise of Islamic State,…
I first met Olga Grjasnowa in 2015, when I was a translator-in-residence at the Crossing Border Festival in The Hague.…
