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Who can write about sex like Émile Zola these days, as in his carnal and edgy Thérèse Raquin of 1867,…
This incredibly witty and carefully crafted short-story collection is divided into two parts. The first, ‘Blood, Guts and Love’ begins…
Thora Hjörleifsdóttir is an Icelandic poet and novelist, and has previously published three collections with her poetry collective, Imposter Poets.…
Three Summers by Margarita Liberaki is a modern classic in Greece, and since it first appeared there in 1946, it…
Flatland’s exquisitely crafted exposé of family life is acutely perceptive, and while her analysis is forensic it is also empathetic,…
Ginzburg’s simplicity often sets her readers a puzzle. Her books are written with such clarity, such apparent directness, it’s sometimes…
Brittany’s agro-industrial factories might not seem like an obvious source of poetic inspiration. On the Line, the novel in verse…
‘Hummingbird’ is the nickname given to this novel’s protagonist, Marco Carrera, by his mother when he was a small, beautiful…
All good crime novels are psychological thrillers, and all good crime writers are also psychologists, and will reveal in their…
My own stay at the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, on the Charcot ward for neurological disease, was thankfully rather less…
This is a surprisingly short novel considering the vastness of its subject matter: right-wing extremism and the banality of evil.…
Five years ago exactly, in the summer of 2016, I wrote a review for these pages of Dulce Maria Cardoso’s…
