November’s #RivetingReviews are all by RivetingWomen! Thank you to Alison Cole, Aneesa Abbas Higgins, Cristina Muresan and Mika Provata-Carlone who review books from the Spanish,
“How do I love thee?” What does it mean to love, to be loved? How do we begin to love, why this person and not another? Why do we abandon our loves, betray the ones to whom we
This is a charming, touching account of the author’s early childhood and was awarded the European Union Prize for Literature in 2016. Set in multi-cultural, multi-ethnic Transylv
Sitting at his ailing mother’s bedside, Moroccan novelist Tahar Ben Jelloun finds himself transported back to the world of his own childhood and beyond, into the unknown recesses
There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, wrote Doris Lessing in the introduction to The Golden Notebook (1962). That post-modernist novel famo
It is with some trepidation that I approach this review of Elena Ferrante’s unabridged and updated collection of papers, Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey. Many readers will ali
