Welcome to November’s Riveting Reviews. To celebrate this month’s Romania Rocks 2 – the Romanian Cultural Institute’s Romanian-British literary festival,…
November 2021 – Romania
As we were preparing for our Romanian reviews special this month, I had originally planned to review the forthcoming English…
The town of the title of Mihail Sebastian’s 1935 novel is a vague, uncertain place. Referred to in the text…
Ludovic Bruckstein was a Jewish-Romanian author and playwright who wrote in both Yiddish and Romanian. He grew up in northern…
Neither one thing nor the other, yet Stelian Munteanu is known to all: the police force, the secret service, even…
Imagine the moment when the Ceaușescu regime fell and suddenly people were in charge of their own lives for the…
Mircea Cărtărescu’s Nostalgia is one of the key works of twentieth-century Romanian fiction, winning the Romanian Academy prize when it…