The Day The Sun Died – Yan Lianke
Without revealing too much, one can simply butcher Chekhov by observing that, if you read a story that mentions corpse oil, you can be pretty sure that it will be used, sooner or later.
The Oblique Place – Caterina Pascaul Söderbaum
Don’t be fooled that this is a story about discovery. It is instead about trying to accommodate what’s been discovered.
A Swarm of Dust – Evald Flisar
To what extent can we indeed plausibly claim to be focusing our attention on the text itself when the context needed to make the text fully intelligible might be missing?
The Stolen Bicycle – Wu Ming-Yi
How amazing it is, I thought, while flipping through book after book after book after zine after book, that I am here with THE STOLEN BICYCLE in my backpack, that we are in 2018 and still use paper, ink, and energy to capture, print, and sell random people’s precious moments of the past.
Although Revueltas was a committed Marxist throughout his life, THE HOLE is not a political novel in the ordinary sense.
An Untouched House – Willem Frederik Hermans
The square book fits easily into a jacket pocket, but the ninety-nine pages of narrative are so explosive as to make one feel like you’re smuggling a weapon.
As technology continues to reshape our relationships to the world and others, the fight to protect the human species must begin with a social and historical understanding of what it means to be human.
Summer Cannibals – Melanie Hobson
SUMMER CANNIBALS, Melanie Hobson’s addition to the canon of Country Manors In Sharp Decline, proposes another reason for the downfall of polite society: the patriarchy itself.
Father’s on the Phone with the Flies – Herta Müller
In Müller’s work, emigration is often accompanied by violence, physical, emotional or intellectual. Texts and language reflect this violence.
The Animatic Apparatus – Deborah Levitt
Perhaps one could narrate the movement from a cinematic to an animatic paradigm as an empowering rather than paranoid trajectory; as a movement from passively seeing with one’s eyes to actively producing bodies and ideas.