A Sense of the Beginning, the twelfth novel by Austrian writer Norbert Gstrein, is published this month by MacLehose Press…
Judith Vonberg
This month our #RivetingReviews cover fiction (including a graphic novel) and non-fiction hailing from France, Greece, the former Soviet Union,…
“Then Sara got up, her ponytail shining on one side of her neck and then the other. She skipped to…
For most of us, Henning Mankell is the father of the modern Swedish crime novel. Yet Mankell, who died last…
In a 1995 review of a critical study of the work of Peter Handke, Linda C. Demeritt describes the Austrian…
Discussing his series of bestselling crime novels at the ‘European Literature Festival’ this May in London, German author Volker Kutscher…
On Monday evening, Han Kang was announced as the winner of the Man Booker International Prize for her novel The Vegetarian. For…
“In early autumn the swallows leave the North. They criss-cross the sky in wide sweeping ribbons, drop away, dart side…
For two days at the end of January, ‘Brit Crime’ took over the Humboldt University in Berlin. It was the…
It’s the time of year for lists and there are plenty of them telling us which were the best books…
Lakeland by Maureen O’Shaughnessy A collective memoir spanning pre-war Germany to post war Australia Published by Ginninderra Press (Australia) …
As the actors took their bows, I applauded loudly, marvelling at the performance of Rory Kinnear as Josef K., a…
