The Last Day is essentially a set of thought experiments, in which an individual is pitted against the strictures of society, human existence and even human biology. In the title s
Fleur Jaeggy’s fictions are often about lonely, adolescent girls and their dysfunctional families, and Proleterka follows this pattern. Beautifully nuanced and quietly mesmerisin
The second rider (of the four horsemen of the apocalypse) is war, and ‘War has a long arm. Long after it is over, it continues to claim victims.’ So runs the quote – from Mar
The fact that Olivier Barde-Cabuçon’s Casanova and the Faceless Woman has been the recipient of France’s prestigious Prix Sangre d’Encre is a fact to be noted with interest
The influence of the late British Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, continues to this day – and in countries other than her own, as this ingeniously written mystery demonstrates.
The ascent of Thomas Enger – both in terms of critical approbation and sales – has been swift, but it is no more than the talented Enger deserves. With his first novel to appea
The Capital, in Jamie Bulloch’s superb translation, arrives for the English-speaking reader at a delicate time. Two years after it was published in Germany the novel presents an
The subject of Laurent Gaudé’s novel Hear Our Defeats is the cultural catastrophe that accompanied the rise of Islamic State, leading to questions about ownership and about the
I first met Olga Grjasnowa in 2015, when I was a translator-in-residence at the Crossing Border Festival in The Hague. I was fortunate enough to translate a sample from her second
