Reading Ambai’s* collection, A Kitchen in the Corner of the House, is like being a […]
Journeys, by Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig’s writing seems to be everywhere since The Grand Budapest Hotel came out. Zweig […]
Fu Ping, by Wang Anyi
So many works of historical fiction revolve around the limited roles women had for, well, […]
The Memory Police, by Yōko Ogawa
There’s an old proverb that gets quoted a lot, in a lot of different situations. […]
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk
Janina Duszejko is very happy with her existence in a remote village in Polish-Czech border. […]
Northern Girls, by Sheng Keyi
Trigger warning for rape. Even though Sheng Keyi’s Northern Girls (translated by Shelly Bryant) is […]
Käsebier Takes Berlin, by Gabriele Tergit
When I first started reading Gabriele Tergit’s Käsebier Takes Berlin (translated by Sophie Duvernoy), I […]
History. A Mess., by Sigrún Pálsdóttir
It seems deeply ironic to be reading History. A Mess., by Sigrún Pálsdóttir (and translated […]
Human Matter, by Rodrigo Rey Rosa
It’s hard to know quite what to make of Rodrigo Rey Rosa’s Human Matter: A […]
Among the Lost, by Emiliano Monge
Trigger warning for references to rape and torture. Emiliano Monge’s Among the Lost (solidly translated […]