Tag: Books

As a child I wanted things I couldn't have, but I didn't envy those who did have them. Every year ...

Maybe I should start the review of the new book by the Basque writer Bernardo Atxaga, Exteriors of paradise, conveying ...

There is something that the British know how to do perfectly: being absolutely brilliant when they put their mind to ...

The smell of borscht from the courtyard of the Pustaválov house, which Chekhov refers to in his story Dear; the ...

The life of Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) is an orderly succession of catastrophes (two world wars, the Sovietization of Czechoslovakia, the ...

When you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you, said philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. And the abyss in ...

I recently asked a person closely linked to the commemoration of 50 years since Picasso's death - a 2023 packed ...

Embroidery is liberating and subversive. Women have known this since the 16th and 17th centuries, but Loly Ghirardi (Miss Lylo ...

Latest barometer of reading habits of the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports, published last May, highlighted that children ...

A group of Bosnian Muslim refugees walk from the towns of Potocari and Olovo, July 1995.STR (REUTERS)Between the pages of ...