The Wolves of Eternity is remarkable – and deliberately challenging. Ranging across time and space, it muses on thinking trees, Putin’s Moscow, a Norwegian heatwave and the undead.
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A classic of the Heian period of Japanese literature, the sensual delight of The Pillow Book encourages writers to ‘follow their brush’.
In The Manic, Benjamin Labatut tells the story of the ‘smartest man of the 20th century’.
In Kairos, a relationship between a young woman and an older married man captures the difficulties and ambivalences of German reunification.
A classic of modern Japanese literature, Black Rain has come to exemplify ‘atomic bomb literature’.
Many think of crime fiction as a predominantly English and American phenomenon, but the genre is thriving internationally, breaking rules and exploring pressing issues.
In her new essay collection, Elena Ferrante tells the compelling story of her reading and writing life, and the battle between form and wildness.
The Nobel Laureate’s new experimental epic is a masterful account of the life of a self-proclaimed Messiah.
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