Life is full of choices, death not quite as much. Even if you believe the soul travels on after the…
Reviews
As soon as I started leafing through and reading Stigmata, the poetry collection by Gëzim Hajdari, who has been living…
I wish more people would talk about Christine Dwyer Hickey, after all the Irish novelist and short-story writer has her…
Right at the outset a full critical bias disclosure is in order: when this book landed on my desk my…
With all my literary travels over the course of the past month, crossing the globe in the search for the…
Dutch non-fiction tends not to be about the Netherlands. Many non-fiction authors write on subjects that are played out far…
As readers we often feel a sense of melancholy when we come to the end of a book we have…
“In early autumn the swallows leave the North. They criss-cross the sky in wide sweeping ribbons, drop away, dart side…
#RivetingReviews: John Munch reviews MESSAGES FROM A LOST WORLD. EUROPE ON THE BRINK by Stefan Zweig
Crushed into oblivion by the iron-clad Nazi subjugation of Europe and the vagaries of literary taste, Stefan Zweig now basks…
This month our #RivetingReviewers have read new books from Germany, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands and – very fittingly in these…
A Tale of Two Translations Published by Yale University Press It may seem an odd thing to do: within a…
With this review we start our new RR venture – presenting books not yet translated into English, but worth it.…
