Antoine Laurain will, for me, always be associated with time-shifting and ‘magic’ – as in his previous novels, Vintage 1954…
Max Easterman
Marion Brunet is one of France’s best-known writers for young adults; this is her first novel for a general adult…
The history of jazz is littered with books, both scholarly and otherwise, that have tried, and so often failed, to…
Hans Fallada was the pen name of Rudolf Ditzen, born in 1893 in Greifswald. In his day, he was rated…
Jan Balabán is one of the Czech Republic’s foremost writers of the last half-century, but is hardly known in the…
‘It’s never good for an Icelander to dream of sea ice, she thought. That means a hard spring to come,…
On Wednesday, June 12th, it was my pleasure to host a celebration of the life and work of the Lithuanian-Jewish…
1954 was indeed an eventful, vintage year in France – especially in politics. It began with the Berlin Conference discussing…
‘…the most lasting monuments are made not of granite or marble, nor from slabs of stone, but are constructed in…
Grigory Kanovich was born in 1929 into a Jewish family In the Lithuanian town of Jonava. His childhood, described in…
The second rider (of the four horsemen of the apocalypse) is war, and ‘War has a long arm. Long after…
In his last novel (A Fine Line, see my review of May 2016), we left Carofiglio’s lawyer-hero Guido Guerrieri musing…
