Comic books struggled for years to shrug off the charge that they were irredeemably trivial. No more. Art Spiegelman’s Maus:…
May 2016
William Bickford patented the safety fuse in 1831: the gunpowder was sealed inside a length of rope, which allowed the…
This is the latest in Gianrico Carofiglio’s series of Italian thrillers featuring his defence lawyer Guido Guerrieri, a man with…
A brief synopsis of Istanbul Istanbul, Turkish writer Burhan Sönmez’s third novel, suggests a book about claustrophobia, terror and pain.…
The six authors: Alek Popov from Bulgaria; Gabriela Babnik from Slovenia; Jaap Robben from the Netherlands; Peter Verhelst from Belgium;…
In this merry month of May we are wallowing in a joyful abundance of literary events, celebrations, new translations and…