Ginzburg’s simplicity often sets her readers a puzzle. Her books are written with such clarity, such apparent directness, it’s sometimes…
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It is clear from July’s Riveting Reviews that our contributors have been responding to the UK’s first extreme heat warning…
The Road to the City is, at first glance, shockingly simple. From the first-person narrative voice of the seventeen-year-old Delia,…
Welcome to June’s #RivetingReviews – our literary Euros. This isn’t a competition, of course, but if it were, Italy…
‘We want stories; we say they illuminate; and the truer the story, the better we like it. But no one…
Welcome to May’s #RivetingReviews. Our thanks once again to everyone who donated to our crowdfunding campaign last month. The total…
As we come to the end of this month of crowdfunding for the European Literature Network, and extend our thanks…
In the exact middle of Penguin’s impressive first collection of Dutch short stories is Cees Nooteboom’s ‘Paula’. Indulging in unashamed…
In this intriguing and at times devastating book, Hertmans pulls a clever trick: he offers his readers both a traditional…
On my first visit to the Netherlands, I had an experience of uncanny familiarity. Sitting over a selection of Dutch…
There’s a bit of a rock-star theme to our #RivetingReviews this month. Anna Blasiak – our Riveter magazine poetry editor…
A slim slice of literary perfection, The Bitch is a lesson in the power of understatement. The simplicity of the…
