John Taylor
An extraordinary book that should be in the hands of every lover of the French capital. And don’t we all love Paris?
Read MoreThis invigorating book formulates a caveat: beware of music..
Read MoreWhenever there is a choice to be made between meaning and melody, the translator tends to opt for the latter.
Read MoreIn contrast to similar extermination-camp memoirs, But You Did Not Come Back focuses on the affliction of women.
Read MoreTram 83 mirrors the most sordid and chaotic features of contemporary African cities, in which non-Africans also remain intimately and often deviously involved.
Read MoreAntoine Volodine is a master of the prolonged, very prolonged, tongue-in-cheek spoof. But he is also dead serious.
Read MoreThe Bloody Hand stands alongside other autobiographical classics devoted to the First World War.
Read MoreGarréta pulls off a stylistic feat: it is impossible to determine the gender of the two main characters.
Read MorePoet Klaus Merz wields his deceptively simple diction in order to pry open hidden secrets: what we leave unsaid, what we neglect, avoid.
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