Comic books struggled for years to shrug off the charge that they were irredeemably trivial. No more. Art Spiegelman’s Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, a unique retelling of the Holoca
William Bickford patented the safety fuse in 1831: the gunpowder was sealed inside a length of rope, which allowed the burning time to be controlled and predicted. This improved sa
This is the latest in Gianrico Carofiglio’s series of Italian thrillers featuring his defence lawyer Guido Guerrieri, a man with a penchant for going the extra mile in his determ
A brief synopsis of Istanbul Istanbul, Turkish writer Burhan Sönmez’s third novel, suggests a book about claustrophobia, terror and pain. Four men are confined in a windowless c
The six authors: Alek Popov from Bulgaria; Gabriela Babnik from Slovenia; Jaap Robben from the Netherlands; Peter Verhelst from Belgium; Dorthe Nors from Denmark; Burhan Sönmez fr
In this merry month of May we are wallowing in a joyful abundance of literary events, celebrations, new translations and publications of literature in translation. The highlight wa
