Pushkin Press helped bring Reve’s masterwork The Evenings to wider attention and now they’ve followed it up with another beautifully artworked addition for your European literature shelf.
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Tag: book review
Margaret Millar’s lost crime novel Vanish in an Instant has returned and it’s a killer read
What I love about Margaret Millar is that you know she’s playing with you but she only lets you get close enough to see the shadows of her deception.
Short story lovers must read this beautifully devastating new Akiyuki Nosaka collection
There is a paradox in all great short stories: they leave large marks that bely their stature. Like a tiny comet crashing to Earth, they are brilliantly devastating forces of nature that make a hell of a profound impact.
Book review: Frédéric Dard’s vintage noir The Gravediggers’ Bread is begging to be exhumed
Dard is brilliant at describing the unspoken tones of noir – the creeping dread, the red-blooded lust and the vein-bulging tell-tale signs of sin’s smothering aftermaths.
Review: Paul Howarth’s debut novel Only Killers and Thieves – a western of grit and grace
As we immerse ourselves in a bracing loss of innocence, we are riveted to the rhythm of this doom spiral.
Lost and found: The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Nicolai Houm is a novel yearning for discovery
Often when reading narratives that decide to play with time, jumping back and forth without warning, I wonder if the book would hold up as well if it were rearranged in chronological order.
