I was brought up the old-fashioned way, and could never have dreamed that I would one day be ordered to kill a woman. You don’t touch women, you don’t beat them, you don’t do
Reviewing any novel by Spain’s celebrated author Javier Marías is always daunting (how can we possibly do justice to the great man’s prose?), but to review his final work, pub
No writer was more keenly aware of what is lost and what is gained by the process of translation than Javier Marías. Speaking to Paul Holdengräber in 2009, he said that ‘when y
