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Hye-young Pyun’s surreal, violent novels reject stereotypes about Korean women’s writing, taking up global themes of environmental collapse and the loneliness of city life.
Jae Won Chung
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Novelist Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the Booker International Prize, presents a multicultural Poland, to the ire of the Polish far-right.
Marta Figlerowicz
2018 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest winner selected by Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Herselman Hattingh
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Once I learned of the existence of mothers, I decided to order one for myself.
JR Fenn
Motherhood can be a crushing disappointment.
Domenica Ruta
Stories are dangerous. They can get you killed.
Tananarive Due
“You used terms such as revolutionaries. Comrades. And, most illegally of all: lovers. Unmarried people who fuck each other without the goal of childrening. Well, I was sunk.” A tale of forbidden love in an age when corporations have replaced government.
Jordy Rosenberg
Life is for living, my dead mother said.
Lindsay R. Taylor
He will surprise her on the anniversary of the end.
Mike Jeffrey
“I wanted his body to begin and end elsewhere, at home, meaning his home, wherever that was, meaning even I, whose job was to include him, wanted him out.”
Kristen Gleason
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