Review
The stories history leaves behind
Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich in her novel 'Last Witnesses' gives voice to those who experienced the Second World War as children
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Review
Joy beneath the dullness of repression
Antoni Libera’s 'Madame' follows a young man’s fascination with his French teacher while exploring youth, love, art and everyday life in communist Poland
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Feature
‘But you, my poor and bloodied...
In the novel 'The Life of Monsieur de Molière', Mikhail Bulgakov celebrates the enduring power of art to transcend every regime
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Review
Knausgård, Satan and the Third Reich
In 'The Third Realm', Karl Ove Knausgård constructs a chilling vision of a world in which even the dead no longer leave
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Feature
The art of leaving things out
Gerbrand Bakker’s fiction is defined by minimalism, eerie silence, and lonely characters searching for a way out of their lives
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Essay
On the assassination of Stjepan Radić
In a thought-provoking essay, Miljenko Jergović explores the blurred boundary between reality and fiction, questioning what truth really means
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Review
Truth is a book none of us has yet read
The autobiography of the great contemporary theologian Tomáš Halík is, above all, beautifully written - slightly ironic...
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Review
Heart of darkness, heart of evil!
The story of Joseph Conrad’s life and travels and the colonial experience that inspired his journey through the Congo and the writing of 'Heart of darkness'
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Criticism
The savage reality behind tradition
In her novel 'A Woman Is No Man', Etaf Rum exposes arranged marriages, violence, and the lives of women trapped by tradition
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Review
This is not a dystopia, it’s...
Paul Lynch’s 'Prophet Song' shows how ordinary life can descend into totalitarian horror almost without anyone noticing
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