This small graphic short story was first conceived as a street art project, and was displayed on posters across the Netherlands and in Sheffield here in the UK. Robben and Faasen c
The murders of Sabina Nessa and Sarah Everard are a tragic reminder of the menace of misogyny and male violence in society. Yet too often our focus is on that moment of violence an
Fizzing with wit and energy, Faïza Guène’s coming-of-age novel Men Don’t Cry tells the tale of an Algerian family in modern-day France, spicing up the familiar flashpoints of
For many years only two novels from Willem Frederik Hermans’ prolific output (Beyond Sleep and The Darkroom of Damocles) were available in English. They fell out of print, but Pu
I might have grown up in communist Poland, and in fact not far from the border with what was then East Germany, but I had never heard about the scheme that this graphic novel descr
Our narrator in Oldladyvoice – contrary to what the title may suggest – is nine-year-old Marina, a young girl living out a tricky childhood in the working-class neighbourhoods
Walking past Waterstones on Piccadilly in late August, I was struck by their colourful window display for Gianfranco Calligarich’s Last Summer in the City, translated for the fir
Just when Simenon aficionados were adding to their shelves the last couple of volumes of Penguin’s very welcome new translations of all the Maigret novels, there comes a surprisi
I suspect that many, if not most, British readers will be more familiar with Georges Simenon as the author of the detective novels featuring the Parisian police commissaire Jules M
Welcome to October’s Riveting Reviews. Whether it’s through trepidation about what lies ahead of us, or because of the long and extended end of summer here in the UK, thi
