Captives deserves to stand on the same shelf with Joyce’s Ulysses, Döblin’s Berlin, Alexanderplatz, Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury,…
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Fans of Juli Zeh’s work like myself will not be disappointed by this novel: as she did in The Method…
Lutz Seiler’s Kruso takes us back to the last breaths of a political simulacrum: the Soviet-controlled part of Germany called…
It is with great sadness that I learned today of the death of the grand old man of Lithuanian philosophy,…
It is exceptionally difficult to say anything about this short, remarkable novel without revealing crucial details about it, things that…
Arnold Pessers is a photographer in his early thirties, who has arrived in Japan five years before this short novel…
Most readers of Marc Augé’s work will know him primarily, or perhaps only, as an anthropologist. Indeed, he is the…
This is a book about obsession. That, and what is revealed in the jacket copy – an aspiring 35-year-old writer…
Pascal Quignard is one of my favourite authors. But whenever I can get hold of a new book by him,…
Titles are important. For me, a good artwork title is more than a label, it is integral to the text…
Daunt Books, Hampstead Tuesday 10 April 18.30 – 19.30 Booker prize shortlisted novelist David Szalay joins us to talk to…
A weekend celebration of Estonian writing, EstLitFest will bring together some of the country’s finest writers and familiar faces from…
