"[W]e can be thankful to have so many talented new voices to discover." –Library Journal
"Take their word for it, then: it's literature. For sure it's European, and it's of much interest to literary readers and writers on this side of the pond." –Kirkus Reviews
"The anthology Best European Fiction 2016 combines 29 different writers from across the continent, here translated into English. Concerned largely with politics or literature, the standout story is Veronika Simoniti's pertinent "A House of Paper," in which a translator is convinced her body is shrinking as some sort of penance for her lifetime of 'counterfeiting [...] in another language.'" –Ruth Gilligan, The Irish Independent