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Houman Barekat is a writer and critic based in London. He reviews regularly for the Sunday Times, the Guardian, and the Times Literary Supplement. He is co-editor (with Robert Barry and David Winters) of The Digital Critic: Literary Culture Online.
Newly translated into English, Minae Mizumura’s An I-Novel is a vivid portrait of immigrant displacement and the ironies of our global cultural ecosystem.
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