In a crisis, there were two types of people: those who explode and those who implode. He was undoubtedly one of the latter. “He” is Inspector Gilles Sebag of the Perpignan poli
What is the purpose of this book review? What is a book reviewer? Maybe it is a reader who is given unspecified entitlement to try to find meaning in a novelist’s writing and t
In October last year, I wrote a #RivetingReview for this website of Alessandro Baricco’s The Young Bride in which I admired the novel’s constantly shifting perspective; somethi
I’m an ordinary, forgettable man…..the difference between me and most men is that I’m heartless and say so while others are heartless but don’t let on. The narrator of Ball
In 2014, Otto de Kat wrote a short essay for PEN, where he gives a poetic yet also practical definition of the art and skill of writing historical fiction, of crafting novels whose
A Perfect Jordi Accent Emily Dickinson said that she knew she was reading a poem if she felt that, the top of her head were taken off. This image seems incongruously violent as if
Sonja Hansen is forty-something, unhappy, single, a Danish translator of Swedish crime novels, living in bustling, modern Copenhagen, originally from remote, rural West Jutland. Sh
We review books from Croatia, France, Switzerland, Spain, Slovakia, the Netherlands and Denmark: not bad! Thank you to everyone who submitted reviews of European literature in Engl
