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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 […]

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