Out This Month: January
SHORT STORIES “Zhuangzi’s Dream” by Cao Baiyu, translated from the Chinese by Stella Jiayue Zhu (Clarkesworld, January 1) REVIEWS
Review: The Erinys Incident by Tani Kōshū
translated from the Japanese by Simon Varnum original edition: 1983 translated edition: Kurodahan Press, 2018 grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library Reading The Erinys Incident reminded me that I’m still quite upset about the publisher Kurodahan shutting down. For decades, Kurodahan gave us Anglophone readers a wonderful
Italian SFT in Locus
Locus Magazine has published my essay on Italian SF in translation over the past five years – check it out here!
Review: Freezing Down by Anders Bodelsen
translated from the Danish by Joan Tate original edition: 1969 translated edition: Doubleday, 1971 183 pages grab a copy through your local independent bookstore or library also see SF Ruminations and The Complete Review for their thoughts on this strange and fascinating novel Anders Bodelsen’s Freezing Down came out in Denmark around the time
Out This Month: December
SHORT STORIES “Upstart” by Lu Ban, translated from the Chinese by Blake Stone-Banks (Clarkesworld, December 1). “The Cat” by Morana Violeta, translated from the Portuguese by Clara Madrigano (The Dark, December 1). REVIEWS
Out This Month: November
SHORT STORIES “The Words” by Clelia Farris, translated from the Italian by Rachel Cordasco (Apex Magazine, November 1) (available online 11/15) “Hummingbird, Resting on Honeysuckles” by Yang Wanqing, translated from the Chinese by Jay Zhang (Clarkesworld Magazine, November 1) ANTHOLOGIES Kurdistan + 100: Stories from a
Out This Month: October
SHORT STORIES “Fly Free” by Alan Kubatiev, translated from the Russian by Alex Shvartsman (Clarkesworld, October 1). “Giant Fish” by Chu Shifan, translated from the Chinese by Stella Jiayue Zhu (Clarkesworld, October 1). “Warm beds” by Mónica Bustos, translated from the Spanish (Paraguay) by Analía Villagra (Samovar, October 24) “The
Review: The Employees by Olga Ravn
translated by Martin Aitken Lolli Editions (2020), New Directions (2022) 133 pages grab a copy here or or through your local independent bookstore or library Olga Ravn’s The Employees is the first work of Danish SFT I’ve ever read, and it doesn’t disappoint. Presented as a series of statements given to a committee
Out This Month: September
COLLECTIONS Swedish Cults by Anders Fager, translated from the Swedish by Henning Koch and Ian Lemke (Valancourt Books, September 6) Forget everything you think you know about Sweden. In Anders Fager’s stories, Sweden is revealed as a place where dark and unimaginable things happen. Where deep in the woods bloody sacrifices are made to
Out This Month: August
COLLECTIONS 3 Streets by Yoko Tawada, translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani (New Directions, August 16) The always astonishing Yoko Tawada here takes a walk on the supernatural side of the street. In “Kollwitzstrasse,” as the narrator muses on former East Berlin’s new bourgeois health food stores, so popular with wealthy young people,
