#RivetingReviews: Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese reviews A LITTLE TOUR THROUGH EUROPEAN POETRY by John Taylor
Don’t be misled by the adjective ‘little’ – Taylor’s ‘little’ tour takes us across 288 pages of 34 essays; across Europe expanded for the purpose by Turkey an
As I work my way through an anthology – any anthology really – I almost always find myself struck less by the individual stories I’m reading and more by the overall picture t
A boy grows up in Rotterdam, in a family that seems to weld the fiendish with the angelic, tragedy with bliss, pure reason with the utterly irrational, brutal instinctiveness with
This is one of those books you could devour in a few hours but which then baits the mind for a long time afterwards with the question ‘What was it really about?’ The writing st
When I meet her for the first time, Dulce Maria Cardoso had blue hair, which ofcourse I question her about: why? Why not? she replies, but I’d rather you consider my writing than
Taut and tense, a thrilling and very black read: Elena Varvello’s successful Italian novel from 2016, her first in English (in a faultless translation by Alex Valente) is all the
Awad, Rashid and Osarabo. Three names, three individuals, three protagonists in German author Jenny Erpenbeck’s new novel. Three men from Africa of the many thousands who flee th
In spite of the glorious fact that these days the European Literature Network also creates occasional country-focus print editions of The Riveter, I am nonetheless secretly delight
