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Early in Hanna Johansson’s Body Double, two women discuss the destabilizing experience of being left behind. The women, Naomi and Laura, have met by chance in a department store cafe after Naomi accidentally takes Laura’s coat, which is identical to hers. She returns it immediately, and over coffee Naomi confesses that the experience of being…
The latest short story collection by Xu Xi, Horizon Hong Kong features Hong Kongers forging relationships and means of survival in their evolving home city and abroad. Split into five sections, the collection depicts the changing shape of Hong Kong, particularly in the years before and after its handover from the British to the Chinese…
This slim ninety-page volume consists of three stories and bears a title inviting feminist interpretation. We Were Forbidden is provocative: Who are “we” and what is forbidden to “us”? Raising these two questions, the author, Jacqueline Harpman, a psychoanalyst whose first novel, I Who Have Never Known Men was last year’s breakout Tiktok success, implicitly…
Serkan Görkemli’s debut short story collection Sweet Tooth and Other Stories follows the lives of queer characters whose paths intersect at various times and in various locales across the Turkish countryside.
In the title story of Emily Mitchell’s most recent collection, The Church of Divine Electricity, a young woman returns to the home of her parents, and her life, once troubled, seems back on track—that is, until she shows up with an eight-pointed star on her forehead that signifies her decision to volunteer for the transhuman…