Violence and the road: Vijay Khurana on The Passenger Seat
In Vijay Khurana’s debut novel, The Passenger Seat, male friendship is all fun and games - until […]
Book review
Thomas Mann’s Overcoat: Surreal, speculative, bizarre
Ugly coats, invisible elephants and giant monuments having sex with the clouds: Istvan Vörös' new novel manages […]
Book review
The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth: Visions of life’s geometry
In Adrian Duncan's latest, a statue-repairer moves to Italy in a novel that explores the spatial reasoning […]
Column
In search of “Brodernism”: Where is this maximalist cult of difficulty?
It's possible to read literature in translation and not fetishise it – we do it all the time.
Interview
Cabinet: 25 Years of art, ideas and “un-nostalgic” publishing
We sat down with Cabinet's Sina Najafi and Hunter Dukes to delve into the magazine's Berlin relocation, […]
Editor's column
Hollow men: What’s going wrong with male characters in literature?
Contemporary fiction isn’t doing men justice in their one-dimensional machismo portrayals, but a handful of Berliner authors […]
