The Nobel prize-winner’s most recent novel to be published in English translation is a book of details. From the opening…
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Welcome to The Romanian Riveter. With this edition of our magazine of European writing, we focus not just on a…
Welcome to July’s #RivetingReviews, part of the European Literature Network’s French Book Week, organised in partnership with Pro Helvetia. We…
As this novel – by the most prominent Catalan writer of the twentieth century, brought to us for the first…
I’m introducing May 2020’s Riveting Reviews with an appeal: The European Literature Network needs your help. And by that I…
This debut is as well-crafted an LGBT+ bildungsroman as you’ll find anywhere. Set in 1980s Poland, the protagonist, Ludwik’s sexual…
We’re into our second month of UK lockdown but we’re still reading, still writing and still sharing our thoughts about…
Throughout this entrancing and disturbing novel, there is a continual sense of oscillation: a movement from a concrete, secure space,…
In Boccaccio’s Decameron ten young people escape the plague-ridden city of Florence and spend ten days travelling between beautifully appointed…
Lucky Per is extraordinary in many ways, but perhaps the most extraordinary is that it is only now available in…
Welcome to February’s Riveting Reviews. The line between fiction and fact seems very faint in our selection this month. We…
Towards the end of My Parents – one part of this one-volume, two-book memoir – Hemon shows his sister the…
