It comforted me to breathe the same air and to be a part—albeit unnoticed—of their morning landscape, before they went their separate ways, probably until the next meal, which, on many days, would have been supper. The last day on which his wife and I saw him, they could not dine together. Or even haveContinue reading “nunca”
Tag Archives: fiction
chaotic and/or exuberant
mark haber & mauro javier cardenas discuss the revolutionaries try again, language, etc
review: UMAMI by laia jufresa (translation: sophie hughes)
Grief, though, is neither defined by culture nor constrained by time.
Q&A w/ laia jufresa, sophie hughes
“I didn’t use to care but it bothers me more and more, somehow, to read book after book never finding a woman in it that isn’t a glaring stereotype—the whore or the mother.”
review: YEAR OF THE GOOSE by carly j. hallman
No, Year of the Goose is not for hearts with paper armor but neither is it an ode to violence, or a skewering of China. Rather, it is a critique of decadence in all its forms.
review: YEAR OF THE GOOSE by carly j. hallman
Always, always Hallman remembers that she is an American in China, an important distinction that shapes not only how she moves through the world but how GOOSE represents both countries and their peoples.
interview w/ wendy s walters
The story you remember from history class is not, should not, cannot, be the only story.
