The third part of Nicholas Boyle’s monumental new biography rejoins Goethe at the moment Europe is being remade and the writer himself is becoming the Goethe we know and...fear? By James Hartley.

Meet our cover artist for Issue 9 and explore the ways she shows how abstract, handwritten visual text can liberate literature from the constraints of interpretation. By James Hartley.

Have you ever been curious about how people live when nobody is watching? Have you wondered whether there's more going on than meets the eye? Eric and Carl live

When a Library Becomes More Than a Library

A new month means new books! Here are some of the most anticipated Canadian fiction and nonfiction titles for October 2026.

Hernan Díaz has built a career out of questioning the stories we tell about power, identity and reality but how is his latest work being reviewed? James Hartley investigates.

The Barcelona-based Scottish poet - and Madrid Review fave - talks to James Hartley about migration, memory, family, language, fire, caterpillars and the long route back to poetry.

What major cultural figures in Spain have been saying. By James Hartley.

On Monday night at Librería Alberti in Madrid, the enigmatic Granada poet presented ‘Los tulipanes son demasiado rojos’, her new collection. By James Hartley.

Donna Miscolta’s Ofelia and Norma arrives in the world today — a novel about identical twins, bodies, betrayal, trauma and the complicated business of becoming your own person.

The Book That Paid Debts

Within months of arriving in Mexico, Trotsky and Frida were having an affair. James Hartley has the juicy details.

“Damnit Frank, you don’t want me to find you, do you?” I asked this question multiple times as I walked amongst the five million…

The Book Was Only the Beginning

Visits to public libraries around Ireland have increased by two million in the last two years, new figures show as National Public Libraries Open Day takes place nationwide.

From factory worker and hippie to Hare Krishna and Trappist monk, the Argentine poet brings a lifetime of searching — and a poetry of silence — to La Abadía. By James Hartley.

The Salt writer Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana’s new collection moves between Japan and Britain, intimacy and estrangement, motherhood and memory. By James Hartley.

Today Carcanet publishes ‘The Reverse Side of the Tapestry’ in which the celebrated Argentine-Canadian anthologist explores why every translation is ultimately an act of resurrection.

The $1.9 Million Love Story

The novelist has been named the 2026 recipient of Spain's Premio Liber for the most outstanding Hispanic American author. By James Hartley.

The Samurai and the Millions