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The second English-language publication of Izumi Suzuki’s short stories delves deeper into the politics of feeling and the future’s dark underbelly.
Read More “Hit Parade of Tears: Stories by Izumi Suzuki – the emotional disparities of dystopia”
Claudia Durastanti’s luminous novel, Strangers I Know, traverses multiple identities, migrations and languages, and considers how ‘art can free an individual from difference, and difference from solitude’, writes Vartika Rastogi.
Read More “Becoming and Belonging in Claudia Durastanti’s Strangers I Know”
Vigdis Hjorth’s novel, Is Mother Dead, translated by Charlotte Barslund, interrogates the cultural expectations placed on ‘woman’ and ‘mother’, and offers a stark and powerful addition to the growing body of ‘motherhood’ texts, writes Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie.
Read More “Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth – a rich, compelling and unsettling read”
Lieke Marsman’s brilliantly ‘cool’ novel, The Opposite of a Person (translated by Sophie Collins), is at once a novel about love and language, people and the individual, nature and the ideas we wield over the natural world, writes Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie.
Read More “The Essay, The Object and The Re-mix: de-centring the human in The Opposite of a Person by Lieke Marsman review”
Close but uneasy family ties form the backbone of this extraordinary, poetic, and refreshingly honest novel by Lara Moreno.
Read More “Wolfskin by Lara Moreno, translated by Katie Whittemore: a review and extract”
Rym Kechacha reviews The Books of Jacob: a wonderful, huge and complex book that asks the reader to “turn our gaze away from the simple”, and instead embrace flux, transformation, and narrative that “sprawls like a great tree’s roots”.
Read More “The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft”
The first English-language publication of Izumi Suzuki’s darkly humorous dystopias packs a punky, prescient punch.
Read More “Terminal Boredom: Stories by Izumi Suzuki – the liminal space between possibility and inevitability”
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