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Reviews
This small graphic short story was first conceived as a street art project, and was displayed on posters across the…
The murders of Sabina Nessa and Sarah Everard are a tragic reminder of the menace of misogyny and male violence…
Fizzing with wit and energy, Faïza Guène’s coming-of-age novel Men Don’t Cry tells the tale of an Algerian family in…
For many years only two novels from Willem Frederik Hermans’ prolific output (Beyond Sleep and The Darkroom of Damocles) were…
I might have grown up in communist Poland, and in fact not far from the border with what was then…
Our narrator in Oldladyvoice – contrary to what the title may suggest – is nine-year-old Marina, a young girl living…
Walking past Waterstones on Piccadilly in late August, I was struck by their colourful window display for Gianfranco Calligarich’s Last…
Just when Simenon aficionados were adding to their shelves the last couple of volumes of Penguin’s very welcome new translations…
I suspect that many, if not most, British readers will be more familiar with Georges Simenon as the author of…
Before reading Vespers, I had never come across Trevor Żahra. However, upon reading Clare Vasallo’s foreword to her translation of…
Nearly a century ago, when even the threat of Nazi Germany failed to dent the general optimism that mankind had…
On a warm late-summer Sunday afternoon, the unnamed narrator travels from her central Paris home to visit her sister, Claire…
