Fitzcarraldo Editions

Laughter shakes us out of our deadness. An outburst of spontaneous laughter is an eruption from the..

Where, or what, is home? What has it meant, historically and personally, to be 'Italian' or 'Englis..

Why Japan? In Fifty Sounds, winner of the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, Polly Barton atte..

In 1995 Alice's mother collapsed with pneumonia. She never fully recovered and was eventually diagn..

With the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova is left to sift through an apartment full of faded phot..

What is pretentiousness? Why do we despise it? And more controversially: why is it vital to a thriv..

The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin is a dazzling work of biography, memoir and cultural criticism..

Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years is a narrative of t..

An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs's This Little Art is a genre-bending s..