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Amanda Sonesson reviews Vladimir Lorchenkov's dark and humorous novel The Good Life Elsewhere.

Katherine Leung reviews the debut novel by Georgian director and filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili and is overcome by sadness as she finishes the last pages of a powerful and moving story set in a [...]

"The author’s passion for music and culture is enough for the novel to deliver a fascinating portrait of Kazak culture and a definitive record of the words between the music".

The first and only novel of Andrzej Bursa, Killing Auntie tells the absurd story of a character who is all too familiar to a young reader (until the parricide) – he is at the encore of [...]

While reading the introduction to Alexander Griboedov’s Woe from Wit, I have come to the conclusion that if the term “woke” existed and could have been applicable to 18th century Russia, this [...]

Louis Train review Rock, Paper, Scissors: "a master-class in noticing."

Louis Train reviews Evgeny Grishkovets's novel The Hemingway Game.

Amanda Sonesson reviews Sergei Lebedev's latest novel, The Goose Fritz, a story about "how the difference between life and death can lie in the specific order of a bunch of letters."

It might be a bit on the nose, but I’d say that Olga Zilberbourg is herself a bit like water: her fiction is nourishing, refreshing, and impossible to hold in your hands before it slips [...]