And the Mountains Echoed is a worthy and emotional successor from the author of A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Kite Runner whilst managing to be even more emotionally heart-wrenching. ...
Ali Shaw gets lost in Poland’s Puszcza Białowieska, the largest surviving remnant of the primeval forest. What is it about stories of the deep woods that fascinates, scares and changes ...
Johnson’s choice to make his characters speak in a casual vernacular, using American slang and speech patterns, makes this ambitious story easy to speed through and easy to enjoy; as ...
A raucous and engaging opening in Marjorie Celona’s debut novel, Y, gives way to moments of ordinary imagery and characterisation that, ultimately, suggests better things are to come. ...
A. M. Bakalar, guest editor of our Poland issue, opens the door for the uninitiated to what’s going on right now in Polish literature. From a Stanisław Lem classic ...
The way that online identity is changing our real world relationships is much discussed in the press but thus far has seen relatively little literary exploration. Andrew Blackman’s new novel ...
Berlin resident and literary advisor Nerys Hudson shares a book-lover’s highlights of a city with one of Europe’s most complex and rich literary heritages, from walking tours and literature houses ...
What is most shocking about The Shock of the Fall, Nathan Filer’s debut novel, is how it transforms the stereotypical conception of the novel into something new, saddening, breath-taking and, ...
The young adult fiction market is huge, spawning book series, films, stars and franchises, and more than half its fans are apparently over 18. Eleanor Pender investigates the origins ...
Peter Lewis on the pleasures and pitfalls of translating German to English, from imponderable subclauses and outlandish compound nouns to the translator’s bête noire, the innuendo. Continue Reading ...
Translator and blogger Katy Derbyshire gets us up to speed on the German literary scene with 11 contemporary books in translation you should be reading. Continue Reading 11 ...
Equal parts thrilling romp and grim, unflinching inspection of the contemporary immigrant experience, Albert Enrique’s short story collection Hypothermia is literature at its bravest. Continue Reading Book Review: ...
For our Germany theme, Michael Spring inspects three works of fiction that explore the amazing change between the country of the past and present, and forces us to consider whether ...
Explore the London haunts the great German thinkers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on our London walk, designed by Marx expert Heiko Khoo. Continue Reading Litro London Walk: ...
Is social media changing our language? Dale Lately looks at slanguage, speakwrite and the unlikely precedent of Virginia Woolf’s txt spk. Continue Reading Stream-of-Carelessness: How the Touchscreen is ...
Is Dido lifting her lyrics from Jacques Prévert? Are Bloc Party paying tribute or plagiarising? Clémence Sebag investigates the relationship between pop music and poetry, from Mick Jagger to Metallica ...
KS Silkwood’s King of the Jungle is an acerbic, energetic polemic of a novel, that revels in the hilarity and dilettantism of London’s art scene. Continue Reading Book ...
In the third instalment of his column, The Written World, author Ali Shaw explores the desert as the cradle of literature, religions and wars, and also as a mirror held ...
For our Transgression theme, Thomas Chadwick revisits a Russian classic in which the laws constraining man can be broken, as long as you consider yourself extraordinary. First published in 1866, ...
Within Sabine Gruber’s Roman Elegy Lochlan Bloom enjoys not only the sensations of life in the Italian capital but also the wonderful depiction of tensions that have existed between Germany ...
