Readers long spellbound by Ferrante’s Valhalla-like worlds of the Italian South, her redoubtable skills as a writer, the swarming opacity…
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Tatyana Tolstaya lives a double life. A fiercely postmodern, vibrant writer of the here-and-now, an indulgently larger-than-life presence in Russian…
‘When I was in second grade, I found a piece of paper on my desk with the words, “You are…
Józef Wittlin, like Homer’s Odysseus whom he so much admired, was a man of many minds, human experiences, geographical and…
The subject of Laurent Gaudé’s novel Hear Our Defeats is the cultural catastrophe that accompanied the rise of Islamic State,…
‘They call them sculptures because they’re made of marble or iron or wood, but they’re really yarns, brief stories from…
‘The truth of memory is strange, isn’t it? Our memories select, eliminate, exaggerate, minimize, glorify, denigrate. They create their own…
Anna Maria Ortese’s Evening Descends Upon the Hills is a book that, Atlas-like, seems to bear on its shoulders the…
This is a story written for a world where ‘the Lord has many days – and I’ve got even more…
Nicola Lagioia’s Ferocity claims to belong to a counter-tradition of fiction as an anti-story, of narratives transcending and transgressing the…
In this slim, rather beautiful book, with its conflagrated, scarlet binding, Giorgio van Straten treats us to a quiet firework…
Like Troy, Lviv was sieged and attacked ferociously, repeatedly across its long history. It has been a war zone, a…
