If on a winter's night

Stories are cut short and readers are dragged into the action in this beguiling novel by Italo Calvino.

Romania

Cataracts, black market goods, and jazz grooves feature in this selection of four Romanian artworks.

The horrors of the Holocaust become a cat-and-mouse metaphor in this graphic novel by Art Spiegelman.

Dogs run riot, a woman works, and a messianic man approaches in this selection of four Hungarian artworks.