Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Vladimir Sorokin's BLUE LARD (Tr by Max Lawton

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About midway through Vladimir Sorokin's infamous, absurd and obscene  Blue Lard , a very au courant couple in an alternate ( very altern...
Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Laszlo Krasznahorkai's CHASING HOMER (Tr John Batki)

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...when you stand there paralyzed and stinking, doused with gasoline, and see the flame of that lighter getting closer and closer, and when ...
Monday, July 7, 2025

Benjamin Myers' THE PERFECT GOLDEN CIRCLE

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He knows there is something else under all this. He knows there exists an under-England, a chthonic place of hidden rivers and buried relics...
Saturday, July 5, 2025

Pip Adam's AUDITION

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I am thinking very hard for a moment but trying not to go quiet like we did the last time we tried to think very hard. One of the sillier, y...
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Andy Sharp's THE ENGLISH HERETIC COLLECTION: RITUAL HISTORIES, MAGICKAL GEOGRAPHY

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Can we use film geographies to create cultural maps across a slice of time? A long, long time ago when I first became concerned that all I e...
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Zülfü Livaneli's ON THE BACK OF THE TIGER (Tr Brenden Freely)

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One hundred years and change ago, the Young Turks deposed the ante-penultimate Ottoman emperor, Sultan Abdulhamid II , and sent him, his wi...
Monday, June 30, 2025

Fleur Jaeggy's THE WATER STATUES (Tr by Gini Alhadeff)

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On his face had been spread as though with a spatula, an expression of peace, a sermon painted over a pale complexion. Though thin, at the c...