In Disquiet a brief tragic love affair illuminates the plight of Yezidi refugees, surviving genocide only to be subjected to…
Reviews
Karolina, or the Torn Curtain is a witty and engaging historical murder mystery, a clever pastiche of British golden-age crime…
So much has been written about Hitler’s Germany that it’s easy to forget that much of it is non-fiction. The…
Most of us have had or will have to deal with a situation such as the one described in Wicha’s…
Termites have got it right. This is Bruno Latour’s assessment in After Lockdown, a radical, stirring and at times discombobulating…
What links Coco Chanel, Catherine the Great and Soviet socialising? If The Scent of Empires is to be believed, they…
My Russian-bred grandmother’s favourite adjective for describing a writer she truly admired was остроу́мный [ostro-úmny]. It was the highest compliment…
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,…
